Caribbean-focused curatorial programme and expanded sections for emerging galleries headline 2026 edition of the New York City fair

We love hating on AI but use it anyway, even if we're not aware of it. A short documentary from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project asks artists: How do you truly feel about this emerging technology? The film, premiered exclusively on Hyperallergic, is based on a survey of 2,000 art graduates. Give it a watch.Read Homerist Joel Christensen’s take on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, plus reviews of new films about Caravaggio, Georgia O'Keeffe, and the muse-artist relationship between Kate Moss and Lucian Freud. Finally, brace yourself for a forthcoming adaptation of the Louvre heist. —Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief In a New Documentary, Artists Get Candid About AI In the short film from...

Ephemeral pleasures made permanent with MAJU’s Jello Lamp
 
Designed by Singapore- and California-based studio MAJU, the Jello Lamp explores how temporary, everyday forms can be translated into a lasting object. Inspired by the soft wobble of gelatin desserts and the inflated curves of balloon sculptures, the 3D printed table lamp combines sculptural geometry with plant-based materials to reinterpret fleeting moments through functional lighting.
 
MAJU introduces the Jello Lamp, a sculptural table light developed around the idea of translating temporary forms into permanent objects. Designer Hyu Lim looked to familiar sources of everyday softness, including the buoyancy of balloon animals and the movement...

This is not Homer’s Odyssey. Let’s get that out of the way. As a Homerist, I had to remind myself of this throughout a film that reduces a narrative of 12,000 lines to just under three hours of airtime. The cuts are significant for someone who knows Homer well: The entire Phaeacian episode is gone; Matt Damon’s Odysseus never meets his father. Where the Homeric epic splits and gives its hero 12 books on Ithaca, the movie is about two-thirds journey and flashback with under an hour once Odysseus returns home.The middle of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) delivers visceral discomfort. When the witch Circe (Samantha Morton) serves her transformative feast to Odysseus’s companions on the island of...

Just a few months after the reopening of the New Museum's expanded building, a water leak shut down the Manhattan institution for a full weekend. According to Artnews, museum workers scrambled to address a "significant" leak during the flash floods of July 18, using buckets to catch water that streamed into a gallery housing artist WangShui's piece "oppose the serpent" (2024). In an email to Hyperallergic, the New Museum said that "immediate steps were taken to address the leak," and that no artwork was harmed. In an Instagram post on Saturday, the museum announced that it would be closing for the weekend due to "extreme weather in New York City."Fourth-four gallery installation view of New Humans:...

After over a week of ambiguity surrounding his whereabouts following his scheduled release from a five-year sentence for “contempt, defamation, and public disorder,” Cuban dissident performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara arrived in Miami on Saturday, July 18.A self-taught artist, Otero Alcántara co-founded the San Isidro Movement (SIM) in 2018 alongside other artists and scholars organizing against Decree 349, a Cuban law requiring prior state approval for all public and private performances and exhibitions. “As the end of his sentence approached, his support team contacted the US Embassy in Havana to request humanitarian parole for Luis,” said SIM member and Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco,...

On July 1, an announcement named Argentinian curator Ferran Barenblit as the chief curator of the 16th edition of the Shanghai Art Biennale. The biennale, which is a member of the International Biennial Association (IBA), and among the most influential art exhibitions in Asia, is set to open in November 2027 at the Power Station […]

Christine Borland, a Scottish artist whose research-intensive work delved into such subjects as forensic science, the history of medicine, and human genetics, died on Sunday at the age of 60. Her death was confirmed by Patricia Fleming Gallery in Glasgow, which represented Borland. Her death followed a battle with cancer. Borland was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize in 1997, for artwork “exploring themes of creation and destruction through institutional (scientific/forensic/police) analysis and reconstitution since the early 1990s,” according to Tate Britain, which administers the prize. “Beginning with specific behavioural experiments in which objects were destroyed (by having bullets shot at...

David Zwirner has closed its outpost at 34 East Sixty-Ninth Street in New York, Artnet News reports. The gallery had occupied space in a town house there since 2017. Its last show, organized with Paris’s Galerie Kuegel, was a group exhibition, “Set in Stone,” which closed June 26. Zwirner is the latest gallery to leave the block, following Nara Roesler […]

The Armory Show, the traditional opening of New York’s fall art season, has announced initial details for its 2026 edition. Set to take place from September 24 to 27 at the Javits Center, the fair is taking place later in the season than previous editions. Led by Kyla McMillan, the fair will feature roughly 230 […]

The former head of academic programs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London resigned in late January after accusing the institution’s staff of “racist” and “culturally insensitive” behaviors, the Art Newspaper reported Monday. The accusations by Yuko Kikuchi came in a January 26 letter addressed to V&A director Tristram Hunt, as well as trustees of the V&A’s research committee. In that letter, Kikuchi wrote that the museum “likely” has “a culture of systemic racism” and she further described her letter as “an act of whistleblowing” as she felt that issues raised by her students would not be addressed without her taking action. (While ARTnews has not seen the letter, the Art...

Two artists have sued Manhattan art gallery The Hole, alleging roughly $50,000 in unpaid proceeds from sales of their artwork. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on July 16, artists Daniel Um and Nastaran Shahbazi say they provided multiple paintings and other artworks to The Hole for display and sale on consignment between 2024 and 2026. The artists allege that, despite receiving partial payments, they are still owed a combined total of nearly $50,000—$28,975 to Um and $21,000 to Shahbazi. According to the filing, when Um and Shahbazi sought payment from the gallery, they were told the business was financially strained and could not issue payments at that time. New York law requires consignment...

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A new bill, introduced on July 14th by Congressional Arts Caucus members Dina Titus  (D-Nevada) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), is proposing the establishment of a procedure that would secure publicly commissioned art in federal buildings. The bill focuses on protecting art during the federal building disposal process, which is overseen by the General Services Administration […]

Archeologists conducting preventative excavations ahead of an industrial expansion in southern Italy have discovered a well-preserved, 2,500-year-old necropolis. The news was first reported at a press conference held on July 15 by the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Metropolitan Area of Naples (Soprintendenza ABAP Napoli), which supervised the excavation. The cemetery, which was unearthed beneath the historic Garofalo pasta factory in Gragnano, near Naples, dates to the Archaic period (8th–6th centuries BCE), when the surrounding region of Campania was a cosmopolitan mix of native, Greek, and Etruscan cultures. Containing 85 graves, it appears to have been, at least in part, a...

The museum in La Paz had been closed for a year; its new permanent collection exhibition includes a mummified girl repatriated from the US and an Andean sculpture that was stolen by a Swiss traveller in the 19th century

The New Museum in New York suffered significant leaking over the weekend as torrential rain soaked the city, Artnews reports. Staff at the publication viewed video that showed water streaming into a gallery containing WangShui’s oppose the serpent, 2024, an ink-on-aluminum work of heroic proportions. Employees rushed to place buckets beneath multiple leaks as water flooded down the […]

MECANOO’S MUSEUM RETURNS IN NEW PHOTOGRAPHS
 
Along Saadiyat Island waterfront, the pale concrete walls of Mecanoo‘s Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi irregularly step upward behind planted terraces. From a distance, the upper volumes compress into a rocky skyline. At walking height, the mass breaks apart around shaded openings and broad paved routes. With this geologically-inspired entrance, visitors are drawn through the building before they reach the museum doors.
 
The 35,000-square-meter museum opened to the public in the UAE in November 2025, when its world-first dinosaur displays drew the first wave of attention. Newly released photographs by Ossip Architectuurfotografie and Deed Studio now turn...

For nearly two weeks, nobody seemed to know where Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was. The Cuban artist and dissident, whose five-year prison sentence officially ended on July 9, had vanished after state security agents removed him from prison days before his scheduled release, prompting fellow artist Coco Fusco to publish an essay last week asking, “Where Is Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara?” and warning that human rights organizations believed he had been forcibly disappeared.  The mystery ended Saturday, according to the Associated Press, when Otero Alcántara arrived at Miami International Airport after accepting exile from Cuba, where supporters greeted him waving Cuban flags and singing “Patria y...

Kyung-Me has yet to be recognized as one of the most compelling artists of her generation. Now in her mid-30s, she has transformed her process to make at least four distinct bodies of work. First, she published her graphic novel, Bad Korean (2016), a pictorial diary done in pastel and colored pencil of a gullible young woman in New York, looking for love. Alienated and unhappy, she believes sex, alcohol, food, and dressing hip will help her escape her hyper-awareness of not fitting in. Told in snippets of speech, such as the repeated phrase “I want to be your only friend,” the self-deprecating narrative is an engrossing combination of quiet desperation and blunt humor. It is easy to imagine that Kyung-Me...

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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...

“Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being,” philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre posited in Being and Nothingness, published in 1943. It’s in this book that he also shares an anecdote about stepping into a cafe, where he was to meet a friend. In scanning the room with its other patrons, furniture, and noise, he was tuned into the fact that his friend was not there, an experience infused with an acute awareness—an absence that transformed into a kind of presence. Architects of Absence, a group exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris, plumbs this dialogue between two seemingly contradictory elements. Colossal readers may recognize the work of Dabin Ahn, Selva Aparicio, and Remedios Varo (1908-1963)...

two buildings extend UFV’s campus west of madrid
 
On Madrid’s western edge, where Universidad Francisco de Vitoria occupies a green campus in Pozuelo de Alarcón, two new buildings by Bjarke Ingels Group / BIG are set to add very different silhouettes to the grounds. The Academic Center rises as a stack of shifting horizontal floors above an open plaza, while the nearby Central Administrative Building gathers four pitched volumes around a planted courtyard.
 
Across a combined 8,500 square meters, the projects divide the expansion between teaching and administration while sharing an interest in movement as architecture. BIG treats corridors and ramps as social spaces, then carries that idea outside...

Yuko Kikuchi wrote a letter to the museum’s leadership that was supported by 12 academics and included student testimonials

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Between April 1 and 10 of this year, NASA’s Artemis II mission made history as four astronauts flew farther from Earth than anyone has ever traveled before. With state-of-the-art technology and numerous cameras onboard, the crew captured some of the most striking images we’ve seen of our planet as the flight path led them around our iconic satellite. Lenses attached to the exterior of the spacecraft, plus numerous photographers stationed on the ground during the launch, documented the literally out-of-the-this world process of rocketing through the planet’s atmosphere and keeping course around the moon. John D. Boswell, a musician and filmmaker who works as MELODYSHEEP, created a cinematic short film...

DHaus brings Carlo Scarpa’s Spatial Movement into home Interior
 
Located in the historic Mendong district of Nanjing, China, the Nanjing Townhouse interior project by DHaus explores the relationship between craftsmanship, sculptural geometry, and spatial movement. Developed as part of a larger townhouse development, the project translates references from traditional craft, Carlo Scarpa’s architectural language, and contemporary domestic design into a layered residential environment.
 
DHaus was invited by a Chinese developer to collaborate with a local team on a new development of 50 townhouses in the historic area of old Nanjing. Following the completion of the masterplan and exterior elevations, the...

The New Museum will stage the largest survey of Arthur Jafa's career, featuring films alongside new installations, paintings, sculptures and photography.

Serpentine unveils processing…, a new archive display charting its pioneering work with AI, digital culture and advanced technologies

The Armory Show has announced its expanded 2026 edition, bringing around 230 galleries from more than 30 countries

Common Objects brings together the work of 97 photographers from across the globe to explore the role of the image and its ability to shape perception. Organized not by theme or geography but by visual association, the book draws on the logic of the reference catalog—a structure built for sustained, democratic looking. Within it, photographs from vastly different cultures and contexts find themselves in unexpected proximity, generating connections and contrasts that no single image could produce alone. In this format, the photographs enter into a subtle dialogue with one another, revealing how context, sequence, and framing shape interpretation and inform visual experience.  
   
   
   
   
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The Unione Sindacale di Base says it has formally signalled a labour dispute—usually a first step towards possible strike action—as Italian institutions remain above 30C for weeks

From the future of the Arts Council to AI, there are several complicated issues for the incoming culture secretary to tackle

George Condo will present major exhibitions in Paris and Palo Alto, launching his first projects with Hauser & Wirth since rejoining the gallery.

‘draw me a face’ project turns kids imagination into makeup
 
Playful freedom forms the starting point for Draw Me A Face, a collaborative project by Paris-based creative studio Buro Nōto, photographer Pierre-Emmanuel Testard and makeup artist Tiziana Raimondo. Instead of asking artists to imagine new beauty looks, the team asked children to draw directly onto portraits, translating their spontaneous sketches into fully realised makeup compositions.
 
The resulting portraits feel both unfamiliar and strangely intuitive. Graphic shapes stretch across faces without concern for balance or proportion, while vivid colours occupy places conventional beauty rarely allows. Freed from aesthetic expectations, the...

Hauser & Wirth is expanding to Palo Alto with a new gallery housed in a restored historic post office

Whether an opera by Puccini, Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, or Berg, Dimitri Mitropoulos brought to the podium a total understanding and love for each score he touched.

Festival d’Aix-en-Provence confronts the living and the dead — and its own future — through audacious productions and an intimate world premiere.

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I am once again going to laud the classic Rudolf Kempe commercial recording of Lohengrin (which I have lauded overall) for its conducting.

All’interno dell’ex edificio industriale dell’Espace Monte-Cristo, nel quartiere del Père-Lachaise a Parigi, Diseuses de silence si configura come un dispositivo espositivo che non si limita a tematizzare il silenzio, ma lo assume come condizione epistemologica, come forma differenziale della percezione e come campo di tensione tra visibile e dicibile. Ospitata nella sede parigina della Fondation Villa Datris, istituzione fondata nel 2011 da Danièle Marcovici e Tristan Fourtine e dedicata alla promozione della scultura contemporanea in senso espanso, la mostra si inserisce in una traiettoria curatoriale che concepisce la scultura non più come oggetto, ma come ambiente percettivo, struttura relazionale...

From portraits taken around Harlem in the 1940s to assignments for Life magazine to the 1963 March on Washington, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) wielded his camera as a tool for social justice. He captured civil rights activists like Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr. in addition to artists and celebrities such as Helen Frankenthaler and Ingrid Bergman. But he may be best known for his candid portraits of families and communities in the segregated South during the era of Jim Crow. All of these and more will be on view in Voices in the Mirror at Jack Shainman Gallery in mid-September, also marking the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation. Parks was spurred to pursue photography in 1937 after seeing...

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Roger Norrington conducted Rossini's Semiramide in Pesaro '94 and made the Orchestra part of the drama in a way I still have never heard duplicated in a Bel Canto opera.

Il principio della sottrazione è il centro attorno al quale si articola la nuova mostra dell’artista Marco Rèa (Roma, 1975), intitolata “Silence is” allestita alla Street Levels Gallery di Firenze. Il principio della sottrazione affonda le sue radici in concetti autentici e lineari legati all’esistenza e alla visione della realtà. Lo stesso Italo Calvino in “Lezioni Americane” definisce la sottrazione come uno strumento concreto per alleggerire il peso del mondo, lasciando integra la sua sostanza. Rèa, con le sue creazioni, attinge da oltre vent’anni a un percorso che attraversa i confini tra street art, sistema dell’immagine e ricerca visiva contemporanea.
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Photos by Robert Berg, Gregory Gorman, courtesy of the Donum; with additional photos by Annie Owens Balancing awe and meditative moments, the sculptures of The Donum Collection populate a sprawling vineyard estate, with many works many commissioned expressly to respond to the lush landscape they inhabit. Seventy works of art, ranging from bronze sculptures by […]
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In the mountains of northern Italy, far from his studio in Madrid, David Oliver was supposed to be resting. It was early 2025 and he had gone with friends to a house in the Dolomites on a retreat to disconnect. Instead, Oliver found himself staring at images on his phone of cities under bombardment in […]
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If you were to rip open a tattered matchbox, what might you find hidden in its confines? And what’s lurking behind biological renderings and advertisements? Jason Limon imagines a playful world in which vintage illustrations are the colorful veneer concealing a vast, three-dimensional universe populated by skeletons. The San Antonio-based artist has long painted otherworldly scenes dominated by life after death, when bony figures are stripped of their identities and instead function as anonymous entities. Tapping into emotion and personal experience, Limon continues to conjure the uncanny through a cheeky approach to one of the most universal symbols. “Matchbook Tiger,” 12 x 9 inches In his most recent...

“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it,” wrote stoic philosopher Lucius Seneca. The phrase appeared in his essay “De Brevitate Vitae,” or, “On the Shortness of Life,” which he scratched into papyrus around 49 A.D. Nearly 2,000 years on, his words reflect what is still a fundamental concern of life—how to spend it wisely? For artist Marc Padeu, the notion of humans’ futile control of time forms the basis of a new suite of works in Memento Vivere, on view starting tomorrow at Larkin Durey. Padeu is known for merging scenes of daily life with references to Renaissance religious paintings. Among his newest works, “La promesse et l’agneau” (“The promise...

Zany gags keep Zar und Zimmermann zipping along at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Diciassette opere, divise fra dipinti su mappa e plate paintings ed esposte alla Pace Gallery, mettono in scena lo stesso soggetto ripetuto fino all’ipnosi: il pino domestico italiano, Pinus pinea, osservato da Julian Schnabel ogni giorno durante le riprese di In the Hand of Dante nei pressi di Villa Borghese. Finite le riprese, l’artista si è rifugiato ad Ansedonia, dove una pineta simile circondava la casa. Lì, en plein air, ha cominciato a dipingere.
Julian Schnabel, “Italy Through Its Trees“, installation view, May 15 – August 14, 2026, ph. courtesy Pace Gallery, New York
Schnabel dichiara, nel comunicato della mostra, che questi lavori non sono immagini di alberi. La materia dei quadri...

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Una donna con un fazzoletto, una gonna, un grembiule e una camicetta – un semplice abito tipico dei piccoli villaggi balcanici – corre intorno a un albero. Ancora e ancora. E ancora. Si ferma. Sette anni dopo, una donna che le somiglia corre intorno a un albero diverso. E ancora. In Round Around, questa donna è e non è solo Sandra Sterle, l’artista croata di performance multimediali, ma è anche un archetipo di altre donne impegnate in lavori ripetitivi in ​​piccoli luoghi decentrati. Ogni video è stato girato a distanza di sette anni (1996/2003/2010/2017/2024), ognuno in un luogo diverso (a Mljet, vicino a Zara, vicino a Spalato, sull’Isola Nuda/Omiš), ognuno con una telecamera diversa....

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La scelta di mettere in dialogo Arthur Jafa e Richard Prince potrebbe apparire, a prima vista, come l’ennesima operazione curatoriale costruita attorno al paradigma dell’appropriazione. Helter Skelter, la mostra curata da Nancy Spector per Fondazione Prada a Ca’ Corner della Regina, dimostra invece come questo dispositivo critico possa ancora produrre nuovi significati quando viene sottratto alla semplice genealogia postmoderna per confrontarsi con la crisi contemporanea dell’immagine.
Arthur Jafa, “Viriconium”, 2026. Veduta della mostra “Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince”. Foto di Andrea Rossetti, per gentile concessione della Fondazione Prada
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