As questions continue to swirl around Alma Allen’s US Pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale, sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud revealed that she was also offered the opportunity to represent the country—and that she had declined it. News of Chase-Riboud’s decision to say no was first reported by the New York Times yesterday, in an extensive feature by Zachary Small on the rocky run-up to Allen’s choice, which came after the Trump administration removed language about diversity from the application materials. But the article did not quote Chase-Riboud on the matter until a feature on the pavilion that ran in the Financial Times today. “Participating in the 61st Venice Biennale would have been...

CERAMICS AND FASHION COLLIDE DURING MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026
 
For Milan Design Week 2026, Iris Ceramica Group interprets the Fuorisalone theme ‘Be the Project’ through
a storytelling titled ‘The Humans Behind.’ Transforming its showroom at Via Santa Margherita 4 into a showcase where each ceramic material shows a personal narrative, the installation invites visitors to look through the tangible surfaces to recognize the traces of the creators, visions, and identities that brought them to life. In the main window, the ‘Reloaded’ a project by Diesel Living with Iris Ceramica provides the backdrop for a live podcast series with special guests from the worlds of fashion, design, and haute cuisine,...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! A Canadian tourist was killed, and others injured in a shooting atop Mexico’s ancient Teotihuacán Pyramid of the Moon. The grandson of Diego Rivera, Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, has gifted over 150,000 items to Mexico’s Museo Anahuacalli.  A papyrus fragment of Homer’s Iliad was found inside an ancient Egyptian mummy, marking the first discovery of its kind.  The Headlines TRAGEDY IN TEOTIHUACÁN. A Canadian woman was killed in a shooting Monday atop the ancient Teotihuacán Pyramid of the Moon, just outside Mexico City, reports the New York Times. In addition to the...

Dull conducting makes Der Freischütz miss its mark at Carnegie Hall.

The Cy Twombly Foundation will exhibit six works by Robert Rauschenberg at Gagosian gallery next week, marking an opportunity to see these rarely exhibited pieces, all from the early part of the artist’s career. Among the works headed to Gagosian’s new 980 Madison Avenue location on New York’s Upper East Side is a 1950 assemblage partially composed of twigs and glass. It’s an unusual piece, according to Gagosian, whose release touts the assemblage as one of the few remaining ones from a period in which Rauschenberg destroyed much of his output. That piece will go on view at the gallery on April 25 alongside a 1950 cyanotype produced with Susan Weil, who was then Rauschenberg’s wife; a ca. 1952 work...

Building sites and agricultural areas are typically described by the utilitarian operations that shape them—rugged, harsh, and often back-breaking. They are spaces that resist softness, built quite literally around force and tension. Artist Pia Hinz flips this idea on its head as she explores the conceptual and material relationship between strength and vulnerability. Living and working between Ardèche, Amsterdam, and Arles, France, Hinz has been working with stained glass for the past three years. She focuses much of her work on objects that one might find in environments of labor, such as construction or farming. Her sculptures take on an array of recognizable forms including hammers, screws, traffic...

The burgeoning market is suffering the fallout of current geopolitical stresses, while other regions appear disarmingly nonchalant

If you think raves are just hazy gatherings of intoxicated people who have forgotten where they are and can't tell the difference between yesterday and next week, think again. According to curator Naz Cuguoğlu, raves nurture "forms of belonging that may not yet exist elsewhere." In her opinion essay today, she explains how museums can become more welcoming spaces by embracing rave culture. In the news, Mexico reroutes a high-speed train line to avoid harming newly discovered rock art. Good for them. Other countries — without naming names — would've built a mall over it. Also today: Genesis P-Orridge's subversive mail art, Jule Korneffel's search for light, Jean Shin’s memorial to the...

Rosa Ponselle is the singer who had it all.

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ateno embeds vegetated-roof residence into meganisi’s terrain
 
Located on an uninhabited peninsula in Meganisi, Lefkas, Greece, the Euthea Residence is conceived by Ateno Architecture Studio as a low-impact architectural intervention within a landscape defined by sea, sunlight, and native vegetation. As the first built structure on the site, the project establishes an approach to development that prioritizes integration with the natural environment and minimal ecological disturbance.
 
The design is organized around a subtle modification of the terrain. A gentle elevation of the ground plane creates an elongated, shaded void that accommodates the primary living functions of the residence. This recessed...

Hermès displays its home collection like an immersive map
 
Kicking off the start of Milan Design Week, Hermès presents its 2026 home collection through an installation built from an immersive field of beechwood volumes. The layout reads as a loose grid, with low blocks and raised elements establishing lines of sight and paths that shift as visitors move throughout. A curation of design objects are perched atop these plinths as if marking points across a plan.
 
Designed by architect Charlotte Macaux Perelman, the setup suggests a way of thinking about interiors through placement and alignment. The design team at Hermès envisions a traveler wandering though the space, observing how objects are lifted,...

With the support of the Chanel Culture Fund, the Swiss museum's new role is the first of its kind at a major arts institution

The four volumes offer insight into 1,800 works, including a “uniquely weird” purchase by Edward VII

SLALOM PRESENTS ‘SOFT CUBISM’ AT SALONE DEL MOBILE 2026
 
During Milan Design Week 2026, Slalom, the international leader in acoustic solutions, brings more colors to Salone del Mobile with ‘Soft Cubism,’ an installation designed by Swedish colorist Teklan. The showcase presents a refreshed color palette collection, aligned with Slalom’s manifesto ‘Acoustethics’ — a core philosophy that weaves together acoustics, ethics, and product aesthetics. Visitors are invited into a space where sound and sight are balanced to support human wellbeing, showing how nuanced, nature-inspired hues can mitigate the stress often triggered by modern, monochromatic interiors.
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numa applies projection to redefine confined elevator spaces
 
NUMA is an immersive projection-based system that reconsiders the elevator cabin as a responsive spatial interface. Developed by interaction designer and creative technologist Shimin Gu, the project addresses the experiential qualities of elevators, which are typically defined by technical and functional requirements rather than spatial perception. The system introduces a visual layer that operates independently of the existing structure. Instead of altering the physical enclosure, NUMA uses projection to modify how the space is perceived, allowing it to be implemented across different elevator types without structural intervention.
 
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Street photography has long occupied a paradoxical space within the history of image making – at once documentary and deeply subjective, anchored in the real yet charged with the fleeting architecture of perception. Its most enduring practitioners operate in the charged interval between chance and intent, where composition is not merely arranged but discovered in motion. The genre thrives on attentiveness to the ordinary – the flick of a glance, the choreography of bodies in public space, the accidental poetry of urban life. Within this field, the question is never simply what is seen, but how seeing itself is structured: through proximity, timing, and an instinctual responsiveness to the world unfolding...

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Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.Last week, Marina Abramović opened her first solo presentation in Berlin since the 1990s, the bombastically named, “Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition” at Gropius Bau. Set to run through August 23, the show brings together historical and recent works, tracing her long-standing engagement with ritual, eroticism, death, and the body as a site of political and spiritual intensity. Drawing on Balkan folklore, alongside Abramović’s performance history, the exhibition moves between film, installation, sculpture, and live action to create an environment...

For 60 years and counting, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has moved with the times, both in its changes of location and navigating the art world, curating its archives with a startup’s mentality and an appetite for risk

The eclectic collection spans hundreds of years and includes ceramics, textiles and photographs, as well as documents from Rivera and Kahlo’s personal archives

Art Dubai, which earlier this spring announced its postponement amid the US and Israel’s sustained attack on Iran, has revealed the details of the “special edition” that will take the place of the originally planned twentieth-anniversary event. Whereas that iteration of Art Dubai had been set to take place in April with roughly 120 exhibitors […]

Palantir, Anduril, and the aesthetics of avant-garde fascism

Cemeteries are spaces where ritual and reflection converge, where commemorations of life co-exist with contemplations of human mortality. In Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, a new pair of installations by artist Jean Shin question how ritual and reflection mark cycles of time, shaping what we carry with us and what we choose to leave behind. Situated in a meadow facing the cemetery’s brownstone Gothic Revival gates, “Offering” (2026), unveiled to the public on April 18, is a site-specific regenerative earthwork that pays tribute to trees that have spent their entire lives at Green-Wood. The installation was informed by tumuli, artificial burial mounds of earth and stone found all over the world. Shin...

A group of scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has built a new machine-learning program that might help art historians determine how many artists’ hands contributed to the creation of centuries-old artworks. The dozen researchers who published the paper in Science Advances range from physicists and computer scientists to art historians and anthropologists. The AI model is called PATCH, which stands for pairwise assignment training for classifying heterogeneity. It works by comparing 1-centimeter-square “patches” of artworks that are known to have been painted by an individual artist (rather than a group of artists, or a workshop, as was common during the early modern...

One of 16 drawings and petroglyphs Mexican archaeologists discovered along a multi-billion-dollar planned train route in Mexico (all photos Gerardo Pena, courtesy INAH)Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered 16 pre-Hispanic artworks along the route of a forthcoming passenger train connecting the country’s capital to the city of Querétaro. The artworks, including paintings and petroglyphs, surfaced as part of an archaeological project supported by the Mexican government and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The institution announced the discovery last week, months after the initial findings were made in January.Following the discovery, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she...

Since I first saw Jule Korneffel’s acrylic and natural pigment paintings at her thesis exhibition at Hunter in 2018, I have watched an increasing gravitas enter her work in debut and subsequent exhibitions at Spencer Brownstone Gallery in 2019 and 2022, and a 2025 group exhibition I curated that included her work. Korneffel develops a palette for each painting based on research and intuition. She pays particular attention to the paint’s viscosity and its capacity for making distinct kinds of marks. One of the engaging paradoxes of her work is the relationship between austerity and lushness, restraint and declaration. The marks — their shape and thickness — seem crucial and spontaneous, while...

“How long can you silence the very thing that makes you human?” asks our Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara in his review of Ai Weiwei’s new book On Censorship. The dissident Chinese artist’s “small but mighty” book draws on a lifetime of fighting state control and packs in ever timely reflections on the harms of censorship — not just in authoritarian regimes, but also in the so-called enlightened West. Also in this edition: a sojourn inside a Black Panther family album, a peek into the lives of the now-anonymous painters in the Qing dynasty Canton trade system, and a semi-autobiographical novel about a predatory art teacher. —Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor“Joju & Maceo [Cleaver], Hydra 1970”...

The TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia, has tapped Sydney-based writer, researcher, and curator Mikala Tai to curate the Tenth TarraWarra Biennial, to take place July 31–November 4, 2027. Launched in 2006, the TarraWarra Biennial is just one of a few surveys of contemporary Australian art. Tai is an expert in in contemporary Australian and […]

Tracing Michael Krebber's Legacy

KARABUK, TURKEY—Türkiye Today reports that a 1,500-year-old set of four iron knives of varying sizes and a whetstone were discovered at the site of Hadrianopolis in Turkey’s Black Sea region. Ersin Çelikbaş of Karabük University said that the knives and the sharpener were uncovered in the kitchen section of an area of the city known as the Bath Structure Complex. Although the knives were recovered in pieces, they have been restored and reassembled. The knives were likely used to process locally raised animals, Çelikbaş explained. Analysis of the whetstone revealed that it was sourced from a nearby quarry and shows that the quarry was in use earlier than previously known. For more on the archaeology...

Magnified view of silver wire wrapped around the bronze brooch BISENZIO, ITALY—New examination of artifacts recovered from a tomb discovered in 1927 near the Etruscan site of Bisenzio suggests that luxury materials from the western Mediterranean were traded in the interior of the Italian peninsula, according to a report in La Brújula Verde. Located in central Italy’s necropolis of Olmo Bello, the rectangular stone cist contained cremated remains, weapons, and ceramics dated to between 750 and 725 B.C. Andrea Babbi of Italy’s Institute of Heritage Science said that one of these artifacts, a bronze brooch, had been wrapped with a thin, ornamental silver wire shaped by a series of grooved rollers. Study of...

Finds from the Ahlum Hoard include a neck collar and fragments, amber beads, curl spiral, needle fragments, and fragments of an arm spiral. LOWER SAXONY, GERMANY—According to a Greek Reporter article, a collection of Bronze Age jewelry was discovered in northern Germany during the construction of a wind farm. The cache was lifted with surrounding soil from the site for excavation under laboratory conditions by researchers from the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation. The 3,000-year-old neck collars, arm spirals, sheet metal ornaments, and disc pins are thought to have belonged to at least three women. One necklace was made with more than 150 amber beads. The valuable deposit, which is known...

Art Basel has announced the thirty-three winners of its 2026 edition of the Art Basel Awards, the second iteration of a round of accolades it introduced last year in order to honor individual artists, curators and major players in the contemporary art system; as well as institutions in a broader sense.  As was the case […]

When we think of “invasive species,” perhaps zebra mussels or kudzu vine spring to mind. Both have flourished in their non-native environments and continue to threaten other native organisms. Invasive species aren’t inherently bad—they’re just trying to survive—but by definition, they’re likely to disrupt local ecosystems and even cause billions of dollars worth of damage each year. So, what does one California city have to say about its burgeoning population of… peacocks? Introduced by a businessman and land baron named Elias Lucky Baldwin more than a century ago, the avian population has long called the area home. Over the years, though, as the originally open area filled with homes and...

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Gregory Spears, whose newest opera Sleepers Awake opens this week at Opera Philadelphia, is reviving Romanticism

Mark Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015) is one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. For four decades, she turned her lens upon those marginalised, overlooked and neglected by society. This month, her iconic works are on display alongside self-taught Turkish artist Sabiha Çimen (b. 1986) at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. Sabiha Çimen and Mary Ellen Mark: The Girls highlights the universal nature of being a girl, captured by two artists separated by time and geography. The photographers never met, but their careers intertwined briefly in 2012, when Çimen was asked by a curator to locate a Turkish girl photographed by Mark in 1965. The curator was curious about subject’s...

In the large-scale murals of Alex Senna, figures gather, greet one another, relax, and interact with their own shadows in bold compositions. The Brazilian artist is known for his black-and-white murals that emphasize community and emotional bonds. Togetherness, security, and positivity pervade the scenes, sometimes playful and other times more contemplative. Set against colorful backgrounds and amid urban structures, Senna’s pieces emphasize connection, support, reflection, and belonging. At the end of May, Senna embarks on a tour across Italy, France, and Spain to participate in several festivals. Follow the artist’s Instagram for updates. Festival Monstar, Bosnia (2022). Photo by Ilda Kero...

"Du bist die ruh" was one of the first art songs I ever knew.

What does it mean to make art together, apart? As digital infrastructures reshape how we connect and collaborate, creatives are no longer bound to the physical studio – nor are students. In fact, a growing number of arts education programmes are rethinking how practice can be taught, shared and sustained across distance. Falmouth University’s MA Fine Art Online is one such course. Aesthetica speaks to lecturers Josie Cockram, Kate Fahey and Srin Surti about how the programme brings together artists working across continents, contexts and disciplines to engage with global political, economic, social and ecological change. They reflect on recent showcases, share success stories and consider what lies...

Just three percent of the world’s land remains ecologically intact, with healthy numbers of all its original animals and undisturbed habitat. According to WWF’s Living Planet Report, the average size of wildlife populations fell by a staggering 73% between 1970 and 2020, and a 2022 study warned that more than 1 in 10 species could be lost by the end of the century. Photographer Zed Nelson’s latest project asks the question: how did we let ourselves get here? The Anthropocene Illusion is the result of six years of travel, during which Nelson visited 14 countries across four continents to observe how humans immerse themselves in increasingly artificial landscapes. People holiday on synthetic beaches...

Respighi's liriche can be as colorful, poetic, and downright lovely as any selection from other art song traditions. Case in point: Rosa Feola's recording of the first song from Quattro rispetti toscani.

In 1912, Pablo Picasso and George Braque began experimenting with combining artworks on a page. As art critic Michael Bird wrote, it “transformed collage from parlour game to avant-garde medium.” The process soon became popular in Modernist and Cubist circles, as artists sought new methods of creative expression, Yet, this narrative, as Fiona Rogers writes in the introduction to Cut Out, presents “historians and art critics with something of a conundrum.” The reality is that there were makers all over the world, mostly women, folk and Indigenous artist, who have been relegated to the margins of the practice. Cut Out, a new publication from Thames & Hudson presents collage, assemblage and montage as a...

Transverse section of a fragment of charcoal ash observed under an environmental scanning electron microscope JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Analysis of charcoal found at the site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in northern Israel shows that early hominins used readily available tree species for firewood, according to a statement released by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For tens of thousands of years, hunter-gatherers repeatedly returned to Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, which was situated near a lake. Ethel Allué of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, Naama Goren-Inbar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an international team of scientists examined more than 250 pieces of charcoal from an...

Dog skull from Castillo de Huarmey, Peru HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE—According to a Phys.org report, Weronika Tomczyk of Dartmouth College and her colleagues examined more than 300 dog bones recovered from the site of El Castillo de Huarmey in northern Peru, where a royal tomb of the Wari Empire was uncovered. “Only some remains were found in undisturbed contexts, while most came from the fill disturbed by the looters’ activity in the 1980s,” Tomczyk said. She and her colleagues focused their study on mandibles or tibias in an effort to avoid sampling the same dog more than once, resulting in a group of at least 20 individuals of various ages, from puppy to senior dogs. Most of the bones, which range in...

By Katherine Kesey In the last few years, Los Angeles's Melrose Hill neighborhood has quickly become one of the city's most walkable arts districts. This past Saturday night, there were nearly ten coordinated openings, and I attended almost all of them. Taken individually, the shows were equally captivating. Together, they were a warm and exciting medley of passionate color, lighthearted mystery, and wry humor. Hannah Tishkoff, Beyond Love There is No Belief. 2026. Acrylic, oil, and pennies...

Feline antics are notoriously chaotic. “The cat is, above all things, a dramatist,” author and Egyptologist Margaret Benson is to have said. Sacred to ancient Egyptians, domestic cats share more than 95% of their genetic makeup with tigers, and they can leap five times their height and turn into veritable spring mechanisms when startled. Also, would the Internet be the same without cat memes? For Léo Forest, these lovable, independent, wily, and territorial creatures provide an endless source of inspiration for dynamic pencil drawings. The Paris-based artist’s playful works tap into the physical and emotional quirks of cats, from brawling pairs to individuals in the midst of grooming, scratching, or...

In a converted 18th-century chapel on the grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a strange form creeps through openings in the architecture. One can imagine its clipper- and knife-footed tendrils scurrying across the floor as it spills from an upper aperture and even slithers around part of the building’s exterior. Its otherworldly genesis is at the hands of Nicola Turner, known for her monumental, contorted textile installations that often surge from structures and public spaces. Turner’s solo exhibition, Time’s Scythe, comprises forms made of recycled wool and horsehair, which she hand-stitches inside of mesh to create the bulging, knotted forms. “This is Turner’s first large-scale installation to...

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For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Nature category: Sophie Altemus.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sophie Altemus is a photographer currently studying at Oberlin College in Ohio. Working primarily in the realm of snapshot photography, she carries a camera with her everywhere she goes.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of design variables, you can...

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

In a world not so unlike our own, during a time not that long ago, a mother wolf sits comfortably upon an abandoned tree stump in a clearing in the woods. Surrounded by carefully rendered flora and fauna, the creature is positioned upright with impeccable posture and human-like mannerisms. Her hind legs are crossed at […]
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For our fourth edition of the Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Portrait, Street, Colour, Nature, Student. You can view all the winners and shortlisted photographers here.
It’s our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Colour category, Chanyoung Chung. Born in South Korea and raised in Montréal, Chung came to photography after seven years working as a nurse in Vancouver. Now back in Montréal, he creates still-life images in the studio while also photographing traces of contemporary life beyond it. His work invites reflection on peace, cooperation, and the quiet harmony that can emerge within society.
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By Kristine Schomaker The work hits immediately. Not one piece — all of it, simultaneously. Large sculptural assemblages covering the walls, a freestanding sculpture in the middle of the room, a piece suspended from the ceiling. The whole gallery feeling like its own solar system, each work a satellite orbiting something enormous and unspoken. Last night, four humans splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after flying around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. Artemis II...

ABOVE: “Spatial Awareness”, 54″ x 250″, hand-knit with wool, 2025, photo by Chris Rettman From her dining room table in Oklahoma City, Kendall Ross knits brightly colored, intricately patterned sweaters and vests—some so large that referring to them as wearables is a bit misleading. Her textile pieces are often emblazoned with diary-like messages that speak […]
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