In 1963, following nearly 70 years of British colonial rule, Kenya declared independence. The nation was not alone on the African continent; in the 1960s, Gambia, Guyana, Malawi, Nigeria, and others freed themselves from Britain’s control in a watershed period of democratic redevelopment and socio-cultural shifts. Wangari Mathenge, who was born in Nairobi, looks to the not-so-distant past in an ongoing series of vivid oil paintings. Many of the works shown here are part of the artist’s current solo exhibition, Re-membering at Lévy Gorvy Dayan. Inspired in part by scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s 2009 book Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance, Mathenge examines her own cultural identity through...

Quebec City’s Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec on October 21 unveiled its new Espace Riopelle–Michael Audain Pavilion to the public. Dedicated to Jean Paul Riopelle, one of the most significant Canadian artists of the twentieth century, the structure will display some 130 works by the artist, including paintings, sculptures, and prints, drawn from the […]

For two centuries, Westminster Abbey has harbored a mystery: Whose skeleton was discovered within a Roman sarcophagus unearthed beneath its foundations? Two Anglo-Saxon abbots are in the running, according to a new archaeology study. The limestone sarcophagus was discovered in 1820 and officially excavated in 1869 from what is now a grassy strip along the north side of the abbey’s nave. In the Middle Ages, it was the yard of the Great Sacristy, built during the reign of Henry III. How, then, did a fourth-century Roman sarcophagus end up beneath the yard? Deepening the mystery, no Roman artifacts were found in successive investigations of the site, even though the sarcophagus bears a Latin inscription to one...

Questions have been raised over the maintenance of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s former home and studio, after a visitor was reportedly struck and killed on October 16 by an acrylic fragment that had been dislodged from the property by high winds. The Scottsdale Police Department has identified the deceased as Brazilian national Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, who had traveled to the US for an event at Arizona State University. According to authorities, Mateucci was struck by a roof piece during a walking tour. Mateucci was pronounced dead at the scene. The National Weather Service reported east winds of 22 miles per hour in the area of Scottsdale with...

Following the news that Art Basel Paris will close early on October 23, all outdoor sculptures installed on Winston Churchill Avenue outside the Grand Palais for the fair's accompanying public program will be dismantled as early as tonight, October 22.The main program of Art Basel Paris will end two days early on Friday at 7pm, after the fair's first and now only public day, due to "potential demonstrations across Paris this weekend and in the interest of safeguarding our visitors," organizers told exhibitors in an email sent out today. The fair's public program on Winston Churchill Avenue was scheduled to run from October 21–25, and features works from Simone Fattal, Carmen Herrera, Marcello...

A son of the Iowa prairies, John G. Bowman didn’t take the dramatic hills and rugged valleys of western Pennsylvania for granted after he became the tenth chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh. This may explain how he was able to view the city as a site for one of the most audacious projects in the history of American higher education. Gathering over a hundred business leaders alongside “no easy board of trustees” at the elegant University Club in November of 1924, as the New York Times put it two months later, Bowman unveiled his audacious plan to construct a 52-story neo-Gothic academic skyscraper at the center of Pitt’s growing campus. At that time, the Oakland neighborhood had newly been...

Three works by Paul Cézanne have been removed from the “Le Temps Retrouvé: The Schlumberger Collection” evening sale at Sotheby’s Paris on Thursday coinciding with Art Basel Paris. The three works: La Ferme, Arbres au Bord de la Rivière and Ciel Entre les Arbres, carried a combined estimate of $1.57 million to $2.24 million (€1.4 million to €2 million) and were painted between 1862 and 1864. The paintings are being returned to the artist’s hometown in Aix-en-Provenance to be displayed at the Musée Granet along with the artist’s other work. Sotheby’s said it has been holding discussions with the Schlumberger family and the town of Aix-en-Provence which, with the support of the French...

stained glass takes on unexpected forms
 
An ordinary egg carton becomes something unexpectedly precious in the hands of artist Hayden Clay Williams. Its familiar folded shape is reconstructed from fragments of jewel-toned stained glass, with turquoise, amber, and soft pink panels joined by silver-colored seams. Sunlight passes through the delicate structure, scattering patches of color across the surface below. The humble carton, designed to protect fragile eggs, has become an object that needs protecting itself.
 
Williams brings the same playful approach to a traffic cone and a folding wet floor sign, recreating familiar objects in a material usually associated with decorative windows and Tiffany lamps....

In a scene that could have been ripped out of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a historic floor globe used by General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II was broken when Pentagon staff tried to move it, according to The Washington Post. As reported by the paper, the globe caught the eye of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who ordered for it to be moved into his office to ogle on his own. “Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by trained curators,” the Post reported. “Instead, Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They lost control of the artifact and dropped...

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has launched the freely available digital catalogue raisonné Robert Rauschenberg: Paintings and Sculptures 1948–1953 on its website today. The digital edition will be complemented by a print version, to be published in winter 2027 by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Gregory R. Miller & Co. The project incorporates comprehensive documentation, new […]

Art Basel Paris will come to a close at 7 p.m. Friday evening, two days earlier than planned, and Fondation Louis Vuitton will shut its doors on Saturday amid fears of protest. The extraordinary closures follow unprecedented demonstrations in France, some of which have turned violent or led to property damage, as citizens protest broken […]

The National Park Service has revised its plans to redevelop the Tidal Basin region of the National Mall in Washington, DC. The plan zeroes in on West Potomac Park, which Trump picked in May as his preferred site for the planned National Garden of American Heroes. One leading historic preservationist interpreted the plan as a way to create space for the project, reports the Washington Post. “The plan that we saw is really about making the space for the Garden of Heroes,” Charles A. Birnbaum, founding president and CEO of the nonprofit Cultural Landscape Foundation, told the paper, adding that, however, “the Garden of Heroes is not included in the plan” and that it “feels like a placeholder for...

Art Basel Paris closes early — after the VIPs and major collectors have already had their turn.

The collector has viewed progress photographs and agreed to the composition before the artist finishes the work. By the time... Read More

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Fifth edition of the fair will conclude on Friday evening, with demonstrations in Paris expected to resume this weekend

Trackie McLeod turns WAG culture, football and celebrity into contemporary mythology.

The University at Buffalo Department of Art invites applications for its MFA in Studio Art degree. The UB MFA is a two-year program in which students, faculty, visiting artists, and curators participate in an energetic, interdisciplinary dialogue around contemporary art. Students develop independent studio practices alongside thematic labs, research, academic electives, seminars, studio visits, group critiques, and exhibitions, while engaging with vibrant local and international arts communities. Our graduates go on to build acclaimed careers in the arts.The Department of Art is situated within an “R1” designated research University, enabling access to knowledge bases across a wide range of creative and...

Seton Smith, the sister of artist Kiki Smith, has given more than 250 prints made by Kiki to the New York Public Library (NYPL) and has pledged to make a gift of any future prints from her sister to the library. The collection is the most comprehensive collection of Kiki Smith’s prints in the U.S. […]

Art Basel Paris will prematurely end on Friday, October 23, at 7 pm, “in light of potential demonstrations across Paris this weekend and in the interest of safeguarding our visitors,” event organizers told exhibitors in an email reviewed by Hyperallergic. The main program of Art Basel Paris was scheduled to run through Sunday, October 25, at the Grand Palais. Following a temporary lockdown during installation on October 17, event organizers proceeded with the original program before announcing the fair's early closure, citing the ongoing nationwide protests over France's failing education system and public services. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has stated that military forces from...

Six artists explore memory, materials and place across Fitzrovia.

iris van herpen explores nature through cymatics
 
For her collaboration with the champagne house Maison Perrier-Jouët, Iris van Herpen looks to the vineyards of Champagne, where she records sounds and explores their visual patterns through cymatics, a technique that makes sound visible by showing how vibrations create patterns in materials such as water, sand, or powder. The Dutch fashion designer uses these patterns to create a sculpture made from silk and recycled gold, as well as designs for champagne bottles, drawing on her interest in the forms and rhythms found in nature. The project also draws on the Art Nouveau tradition, which has long informed the visual identity of Maison Perrier-Jouët,...

In Fustat, a historic district of Cairo that was once the ancient Islamic capital of Egypt and a major trading center, centuries-old pottery known as Fustat ware has been excavated throughout the area. Typically featuring a luster glaze in a wide range of hues to produce an iridescent effect, the surfaces were sometimes incised with designs. For artist Ibrahim Said, who was born in Old Cairo and grew up observing the ceramics industry in the dozens of workshops comprising the area’s Pottery Village, past meets present in richly ornamented sculptures. The artist’s new solo exhibition, Shaping Time at Yossi Milo, delves into traditional craft with a contemporary twist. Said recently completed the inaugural...

Lisette Oropesa casts a spell as the titular sorceress in the Royal Ballet and Opera's fizzy revival of Alcina. 

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Increasing the state’s power over works that are designated as “national treasures” runs the risk of damaging the art market

Launch of the building in Germany coincides with reopening of Kunsthalle Würth, which is marking its 25th anniversary with a major exhibition exploring the German artist’s oeuvre

Four years ago, in the Arsenale, I stood with French artist Marguerite Humeau in front of three beings she had named after ocean currents, and nobody could agree on what they were. Her own friends had called them animals, plants and flowers, and she had decided it did not matter, so there they hung, built from seaweed and bone and ocean plastic, with skin she had given pores and freckles to so that we might feel something for a creature we could not name. ‘I thought that maybe because of climate change and mass extinctions, animals are also getting conscious of their own death, and maybe they’re developing their own rituals, mythologies, and spirituality,’ she told me. Our conversation came back to me...

I have chosen "Våren" (The Spring) which is one of my favorite Grieg songs and which is sung perfectly by Anne Sofie von Otter.

introducing sloped softwall in deep blue and glacier blue
 
molo’s founders Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen have explored paper as a sculptural medium for over two decades, finding strength and purity in this material. The Vancouver-based studio is renowned for its soft collection — a modular line of flexible space partitions, building blocks, furniture, and lighting made almost entirely from paper or textile. Expanding this system, molo introduces sloped softwall in two nuanced shades of blue, debuting alongside a sustainable manufacturing partnership with historic Bavarian mill Gmund Paper.
 
‘Rather than designing furniture with rigid definitions of use, we envision layers of possibilities —...

Against the backdrop of the out-of-touch wealthfest that is Art Basel Paris, there’s an image from the ongoing student protests in France that is seared into my mind: Marianne, the allegorical figure at the center of the Monument à la République in Paris, donning a fluorescent yellow traffic vest, an emblem of the earlier gilets jaunes movement. But this particular garment bears a message: “Police mutilate high schoolers.” It’s a reference to the gruesome injuries sustained by young protesters at the hands of French police, including a 14-year-old boy whose jaw was shattered by a tear grenade. In the footsteps of activists including Black Lives Matter protesters who tore down Confederate statues,...

Francesca Gavin explores fungi in visual survey by Phaidon
 
Fungi occupy an unusual place in the human imagination, appearing in botanical illustrations, folklore, children’s literature, and contemporary art, while their intricate underground networks have increasingly attracted the attention of scientists, architects, and designers. Their appeal lies partly in their extraordinary diversity, but also in the questions they raise about how we understand intelligence, ecological relationships, and our place within the natural world. For writer and curator Francesca Gavin, the growing interest in mushrooms reflects a wider desire to find new ways of understanding the world around us. ‘I think we are...

London will have a new South Asian arts festival. The nine-day event will take place in South Kensington’s cultural quarter next summer, featuring artists from India and its diaspora. The festival will be organized by the Great Exhibition Road Festival (led by Imperial College London), Serendipity Arts, an Indian arts nonprofit, and several leading London […]

A flurry of seven- and eight-figure works were snapped up on the opening days of the fair

Bondi Beach, a neighborhood east of central Sydney, is about as iconic a surf spot as they come. Its eponymous crescent beach glows with golden sand, and its cliffs frame stunning scenery. In December 2025, it was also the site of a tragic terrorist attack, when two men opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 people. (Gun deaths, let alone mass shootings, are exceedingly rare in Australia, especially compared to the U.S.) At Bondi, heroism and a sense of community converged in its beautiful setting, reinforcing pride of place. And it’s again home, at least temporarily, to “the world’s largest free to the public sculpture exhibition.” Sculpture by the Sea organizes an annual outdoor...

More than 120 artists will take part in the first Rubaiya Qatar across Doha.

Anyone who has driven Interstate 25 between Denver and Colorado Springs knows that traffic can get… hairy. And it’s not just drivers whose safety is at risk, as animals like elk, bears, coyotes, and more also need to use the highway to access 39,000 acres of habitat. Cars and pronghorns just aren’t compatible. That’s why Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) set out to build a wildlife-only bridge, the largest of its kind currently in North America, which it completed in December 2025. Within the first nine months since its opening, wildlife-vehicle collisions were already down a whopping 91 percent. Before the crossing opened, dozens of animals were killed by vehicles every year, often up to...

Köln's current Rigoletto, the debonair Korean baritone Insik Choi, is this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag featured artist.

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A husband-wife duo add star power to San Francisco Opera's stylish revival of Manon.

From the moment she started to sing until the end, all of us sat in complete silence letting this voice engulf us.

Nested in a natural lava cave in Mexico City’s Pedregal de San Ángel region, a sprawling, mosaic-laden domicile was once home to Juan and Helen Fowler O’Gorman, an architect and artist, respectively. The pair designed the icon of modernist Mexican architecture, called Casa Cueva, in 1954, although it was largely destroyed after the couple sold the home in 1969. At Museo Jumex, Álvaro Urbano presents an homage to the innovations of Casa Cueva, drawing on its gardens and the legacy that Helen left behind, particularly through her 1961 book titled Mexican Flowering Trees and Plants. Written and illustrated while she lived at Casa Cueva, the rich volume documented a variety of the region’s native...

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By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...

By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....

By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...

By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...

Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.

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.

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...

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...