Humans have been creating pigments for thousands of years, foraging for local materials that could be ground or extracted to create colors. The 17,000-year-old cave art in Lascaux, France, for example, is a mindbogglingly early example of human ingenuity when it comes to processing elements of nature, such as minerals, ochres, and shells, to create different hues. As time went on, people continued to experiment and develop new dyes and paints, some of which were poisonous. Minerals sometimes contain toxic elements, so red often contained lead, cinnabar had mercury, and orpiment arsenic. Aristocratic Romans even used a face-lightening compound containing lead, and their blush tended to feature crushed...

Bob Monk, a Gagosian director who was with the gallery for more than 20 years, working closely with artists such as Ed Ruscha and Richard Artschwager, died on December 15 at 75. His ex-wife, Wendy Monk, said the cause was complications from a heart condition. Monk was a quiet force of the New York art market, with a CV that included working for dealer Leo Castelli and Sotheby’s, to say little of the gallery that Monk himself cofounded. Across several decades, he established himself as a quiet force of the city’s market ecosystem. Born in 1950, Monk grew up in Long Island, then moved with his family to Brooklyn. He attended Pratt Institute in New York, where he studied photography. He started his career in...

3D Printed Sand Blocks Shape Tùr House’s Reusable Building Shell
 
Tùr House is a speculative architectural research project by Barry Wark Studio that explores adaptability, disassembly, and long-term material reuse as foundational design principles. The proposal challenges conventional notions of buildings as fixed and disposable objects, instead framing architecture as a system capable of evolving over time through repair, modification, and reconfiguration.
 
The residential project is centered on a single-material building envelope composed of large-scale 3D printed sand blocks. This facade operates as an independent outer layer, separated from the structural frame and interior spaces. By avoiding...

While many prominent Korean artists keep their studios abroad, Ayoung Kim remains rooted in Seoul’s Nakwon Sangga — a once futuristic, now historic commercial complex. From here, she reimagines a city negotiating between the force of capitalism and the persistence of its past.Spread across the third-floor galleries at MoMA PS1, the video installations in Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex synthesize live-action footage, video game engines, and generative AI to create an interlocking series of speculative narratives centered on two female drivers, En Storm and Ernst Mo. “Delivery Dancer’s Sphere” (2022), the first in the trilogy, presents a gamified delivery system in which a “Dancemaster”...

Kathleen Goncharov is remembered for her decorated curatorial career and as a loving friend. (photo taken in 2003 by Robert Ransick)Kathleen Goncharov, a longtime curator who served as the United States Commissioner for the 50th Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 73. The news of her passing was announced by a group of friends and her partner, poet and artist Charles Doria. She died of natural causes in her Boca Raton home on New Year’s Eve. Goncharov is remembered as a doting friend, a champion of artists, and a gifted and intuitive curator. “Kathy was an artist at heart, and this sensibility shaped everything she did,” artist and friend Robert Ransick wrote in an email to Hyperallergic. “It...

A particularly bizarre strain of conspiracy theory holds that prominent female celebrities, including musicians, athletes, and political figures, are secretly transgender. In a Paris court on Monday, a French art dealer was among 10 people found guilty of online harassment for falsely claiming that France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron was born as a boy named Jean-Michel Trogneux, which is the name of her older brother.  The upset caused by public assertions about her gender led to a “deterioration of her health” and a “deterioration in her quality of life,” her daughter Tiphaine Auzière, a lawyer, told the court, according to the Guardian. Macron is also suing right-wing American podcaster Candace...

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has named the more than sixty-five artists set to participate in the third iteration of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale. Titled “In Interludes and Transitions (في الحِلّ والترحال),” the exhibition will open January 30 in the JAX District, an industrial site turned arts complex in the historic town of Diriyah, near […]

Thibaut Grevet is a French director and photographer who moves through the world with an eye tuned to the unseen. His images slip between reality and reverie, blending people, architecture, and landscape into quiet collisions of shape, shadow, and motion. What he captures often feels less like documentation and more like memory — soft, shifting, and charged with an otherworldly calm.Grevet works in moments that unfold on their own terms: unposed, unpolished, and beautifully transient. He gravitates toward what flickers at the edge of perception, revealing details that many overlook but that, in his hands, expand into entire worlds. His 2025–26 collaboration with New York City Ballet extends this dialogue...

Combining a variety of fabrics, buttons, shells, and beads, Stephen Towns’ mixed-media textile pieces draw on the rich heritage of quilts made especially by Black women in the American South. Tableaux reminiscent of family portraits and vacation snapshots lend themselves to an exploration of the power of pleasure and community during an era when the South was still racially segregated. Towns’ solo exhibition, Safer Waters: Picturing Black Recreation at Midcentury at the Wichita Art Museum, is an extension of the artist’s ongoing series exploring Black leisure in the era of Jim Crow. “And it Was Joy That Covered Us” (2025), natural and synthetic fabric, polyester and cotton thread, cubic zirconia, and...

A Venetian palazzo painted by Claude Monet—with a riderless gondola floating in a fog of coolish hues—is up for sale via Christie’s International Real Estate. The location is on a premier stretch of the Grand Canal, and the price is “available upon request” (which did not meet with a response by press time).   Features include a boat ramp/boat dock, courtyard, terrace, and garden, and the provenance is rich: Near the end of the 15th century, the so-called Palazzo Dario was remodeled from an earlier Gothic palace to the liking of Giovanni Dario, a Venetian senate secretary and diplomat who negotiated a peace agreement and received money as a reward. As the Christie’s listing reads: “The...

The British Museum is looking for an experienced treasure hunter to track hundreds of Greek and Roman antiquities that went missing from its collection in recent years and were possibly stolen by an employee. Tom Harrison, head of the institution’s Greek and Roman collections, told the London Times that he hopes to hire someone to […]

Can influencers call themselves artists? According to immigration lawyers in the United States, the answer is yes, as digital marketing has blurred the lines between the performing arts, modeling, and content creation over the last decade. A recent Financial Times report indicated that social media influencers and OnlyFans models make up a steady stream of applicants for the O-1B visa, which is originally for people with documented high achievements in the arts. Through the Immigration Act of 1990, the O visa classification is reserved for temporary workers who demonstrate “extraordinary ability” in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics. The O-1B visa is specifically for creatives working...

In May 2025, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Mexico City. It was Macron’s first official visit to Mexico, and was an important step in Mexico’s recent attempts to bolster trade relations with Europe. While much of the meeting focused on economic relations between the countries, Sheinbaum also announced that France and Mexico agreed to temporarily exchange a pair of handwritten codices. The Codex Azcatitlán, housed in Paris’s Bibliothèque Nationale de France, will travel to Mexico City, while the Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia will loan its Codex Boturini to Paris. Due to conservation concerns, neither are frequently on view in their...

Welcome to the new year! Whether you spent the holidays here, or somewhere a little less bitterly cold, we hope they filled your heart with warmth. A lot has changed since the last time I popped up in your inbox — a little Christmas snow (or close enough) for the first time in a very long time. And we swore in a new mayor in the bowels of an abandoned subway station. (If you didn't get an invite to that ceremony, here's a tip: Stay on the downtown 6 after the last stop, and you'll loop around that gorgeous station.) The start of a new year is always a bit surreal and difficult for me to grasp — I won't even mention how many times I've accidentally written "2025" in these first...

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In the early 20th century, Russia underwent a series of drastic and devastating changes. After centuries of imperial rule, the 1917 Russian Revolution put an end to the Romanov dynasty and hailed the start of a new era under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, head of the Bolshevik Party. This government body eventually became known as the Communist Party, and Russia was dubbed the Union of Soviet Social Republicans, or the U.S.S.R. In 1927, everything changed again. Lenin died that year, and a new leader maneuvered into power: Joseph Stalin. Fundamentally a dictator, Stalin ruled through terror and used violence and oppressive tactics to instill a government-controlled society. His approach essentially defines...

A plan by the Flemish government to dissolve M HKA, a beloved contemporary art institution in Antwerp, has come under further fire, with a legal review initiated by the museum now claiming that such a move would be illegal. VRT News, a Belgian outlet, reported that M HKA had worked with several artists to bring on lawyers to look over the plan. The results of that review were presented to the press on Tuesday, with well-known artists such as Luc Tuymans and Otobong Nkanga on hand at the conference. M HKA said in a release that the government’s plan contained “flagrant illegalities.” The plan, revealed in October of last year, would see the M HKA essentially closed down, with its collection sent to Ghent...

Arrival from the Sea Across pine-covered Långholmen island
 
A newly completed house by Mer Architects sits on a rocky island known as Långholmen in a Finnish coastal archipelago. The site lies among granite and gneiss outcrops shaped by post-glacial uplift, with pine trees rising directly from shallow soil pockets along the shore.
 
Långholmen is defined by high, smooth rock faces and a dense ground layer of mosses and lichen. The timber building occupies a narrow zone between exposed stone and mature pines, positioned to follow the existing contours rather than clearing them.
 
Arrival takes place from the open sea into a sheltered cove, where a large timber jetty functions as the primary outdoor...

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Layered wire mesh reimagines the Japanese tea Ceremony House
 
The Wire Mesh Tea Ceremony House by Moriyuki Ochiai Architects presents a reinterpretation of the traditional Japanese tea house through the use of industrial diamond-shaped wire mesh. The project reconsiders the spatial and sensory qualities of the tea ceremony environment by replacing conventional solid enclosures with layered, permeable materials.
 
Wire mesh is employed as both structure and spatial filter. Its composition of lines and voids allows variations in wire type, thickness, density, and color, producing a wide range of visual and atmospheric effects. These variables influence light transmission, shadow, sightlines, and airflow,...

TDM’s audio device folds into a portable listening gadget
 
TDM introduces Neo, a pair of hybrid headphones that twist into a portable bluetooth speaker for outdoor and group listening. Unveiled at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the device combines headphones and a speaker in one, with no extra cables or setups needed. By twisting the gadget, it folds into a speaker, which users can use to stream their music anywhere they go. In headphone mode, sound plays directly into the ears for privacy. In speaker mode, the sound moves to the built-in speaker drivers so everyone around the user can hear it.
 
Inside the hybrid headphones that turn into a portable bluetooth speaker, the design is engineered to work well in...

a hotel in China shaped by tides, light, and coastal topography
 
Perched on the southwestern edge of Dongshan Island in China, the Dongshan West Bay Resort by Protoscapes transforms a decommissioned fishing pier into a public-facing coastal landscape. Located on the former site of Qianlou Town’s historic fishery center, the project marks the first diving-themed resort on the island. 
 
The architectural language is shaped by the surrounding geography. Undulating balcony lines echo tidal rhythms, while curvilinear triangular openings along the hotel corridors draw northeastern light inward and orient views toward distant mountain ranges. On the northeastern edge, a 24-meter diving tower rises as a...

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Five art openings to kick off 2026, split neatly across two nights.

Shigeru Ban has spent over four decades redefining what architecture can achieve, merging innovation with social conscience to create spaces that are as humane as they are visionary. From paper-tube shelters in disaster zones to landmark cultural institutions, his work demonstrates that architecture can transcend aesthetics, offering both dignity and hope. The Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow now presents a new exhibition that traces this remarkable career, situating Ban’s practice within a global dialogue of design, material experimentation and humanitarian ambition. Born in Tokyo in 1957, Ban studied architecture in the United States, a period that profoundly shaped his sensibility....

In 1955, New York’s MoMA opened The Family of Man, an ambitious exhibition which brought together hundreds of images by photographers around the world. It was organised by Edward Steichen, whose aim was to demonstrate “the gamut of life from birth to death” through pictures. The display toured internationally and was seen by more than 9 million visitors, and is now regarded as one of the most famous shows of all time. Perhaps most importantly, it positioned the idea of “family” as something bigger than our immediate, or biological, circles. The images showed how complex and wide-reaching the term can be – highlighting shared experiences across borders. Now, Brussels’ Hangar presents Family...

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The term “needlework” covers a wide variety of thread-based practices from sewing to knitting to lace-making. While some of these are functional, techniques like embroidery are often employed purely for their aesthetic qualities. From ornately stitched Japanese robes to regal, patterned belts in Central Africa’s Kuba kingdom, the time-honored medium is diverse with virtually endless applications. In The Atlas of World Embroidery by Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, forthcoming from Princeton University Press, a world of compositions made with needle and thread is compiled into a single volume. A belt for a Kuba king or immediate family, which has numerous small pendants, including ram’s heads, bells, and...

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) is now accepting applications for the 2027 Arts/Industry residency, a three-month program hosted by Kohler Co. in Kohler, Wisconsin. More than 600 artists have benefited from this celebrated artist residency since its beginning in 1974. Kohler Co. will host four artists at a time for the three-month residency: Within each cohort, two residents work in the Kohler Co. Pottery and two in the Foundry. Advance experience working with clay or metal is not required — artists must simply have an interest in adapting industrial processes to their practice.  Arts/Industry artist-in-residence Nirmal Raja in the Kohler Co. Foundry.  In addition to 24/7 studio access,...

"I’m more interested in revealing the quiet violence of what we call ‘normal’ than in telling anyone what to feel. If a viewer finds their own discomfort in that—it’s a gift, not something I try to control.”
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Cut flowers. Fruit. Vegetables. Household items. Still life photography captures all kinds of man-made and natural objects, documenting carefully arranged paraphernalia of everyday life. According to Tate, the genre: “can be a celebration of material pleasures such a food and wine, or often a warning of the ephemerality of these pleasures and the brevity of human life.” These five photographers take still life in new and unexpected directions. These five photographers take still life in new and unexpected directions. They turn tradition on its head, revealing the absurdity and occasional hilarity of modern society. Olivia Locher | Olivia Locher’s most recent projects include a satirical “how-to”...

In 2025, the Aesthetica Art Prize and its accompanying exhibition at York Art Gallery have brought together artists who confront the pressures shaping contemporary life with urgency, imagination and care. Their work spans performance, sculpture, film, photography and immersive installation, navigating themes that range from spiritual healing and embodied perception to ecological fragility, technological acceleration and cultural memory. As the Prize and exhibition draw to a close, this article takes a closer look at the ideas that have defined an exceptional year of art and artistic experimentation. Film Film stands out as one of the most dynamic and compelling areas of contemporary art and our 2025 Main Prize...

Nan Goldin, born in Washington D.C. in 1953, has spent over four decades documenting human intimacy, friendship, addiction and loss with an unflinching eye. Her work has been exhibited in institutions around the world – from MoMA, New York, to Tate Modern, London, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and Moderna Museet, Stockholm – cementing her reputation as one of the most influential photographers of her generation. However, her new exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, This Will Not End Well, offers a different lens. For the first time in Europe, the focus is on Goldin as a filmmaker, introducing commissions that transform the space into a sensory village of images, sound and architecture. “I have always wanted...

I meccanismi di decodifica che scattano non appena il nostro sguardo si posa su un’immagine funzionano per automatismi percettivi sedimentati in secoli di educazione visiva: in virtù della loro istantanea attivazione, siamo in grado di riconoscere forme, attribuire profondità, distinguere piani, senza che questo processo richieda alcuno sforzo cosciente, come se la visione fosse un atto naturale e neutro anziché una costruzione culturale complessa e storicamente determinata. Turbare quest’illusione di immediatezza e minare alle radici l’incondizionata fiducia che riponiamo nelle nostre capacità percettive è il cardine della sperimentazione pittorica di Luca Moscariello, che nella personale Sublimi...

Il “Museo del Genio” (Istituto Storico e di Cultura dell’Arma del Genio) di Roma non poteva cogliere migliore occasione per riaprire le porte al grande pubblico. Fino al 15 febbraio 2026, infatti, ospita “Vivian Maier. The Exhibition”, mostra dedicata ad una delle più grandi “fotografe di strada” del secolo scorso. Il percorso espositivo è un viaggio itinerante fra New York e Chicago, i cui vivaci quartieri catturati da Maier sono i protagonisti indiscussi.
Vivian Maier, “Armenian woman fighting on East 86th Street”, New York, NY, September 1956. Gelatin silver print, 2012, 40×50 cm, © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof. Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY
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By Marina Claire The Middle Becomes Eclectic II is an LA-made small works salon – a large-scale exhibition within an intimate space – of forty Los Angeles area artists. The show’s title is a play on the iconic KCRW alternative radio program that began in LA in 1977. The small works in this exhibit span a wide range of media and styles, all made during the past year, by diverse artists at all career levels, guest curated by Camilla Taylor. The show is on view at The Middle Room Gallery in...

"I'm trying to create a portrait of a person without their face, which is really interesting to me," Laurie Lee Brom says. Instead, she allows the setting and actions to shed light on who this person is... Read the full article by clicking above.
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Con Fantastica, la Quadriennale d’arte del 2025 si presenta come un progetto che assume l’immaginazione non come fuga dal reale, ma come strumento critico capace di riformulare il presente. Ideata da Luca Beatrice, scomparso improvvisamente a gennaio nell’anno dell’inaugurazione, questa edizione porta con sé il peso e la responsabilità di una visione che non si è potuta misurare direttamente con l’esito espositivo, ma che rimane leggibile come struttura concettuale diffusa. Beatrice aveva immaginato Fantastica come un campo di forze, non come una mappa ordinata: un luogo in cui l’arte italiana contemporanea potesse mostrarsi nella sua capacità di generare mondi, immagini e narrazioni...

AN ARTIST AND PEDAGOGUE of powerful originality with a personality to match, Ken Jacobs saw the full equation. Like his generational peer Stan Brakhage, and such earlier nonpareils Dziga Vertov and Oscar Micheaux, he reinvented the motion picture medium to suit his interests, which extended well beyond conventional cinema: not montage, but bricolage; not film […]

Nella fotografia di Santi Caleca c’è una donna bionda quasi quarantenne che sorride con un paio di infradito in mano in via Giulia a Roma: è Letizia Battaglia e siamo nel 1972. Può sembrare una semplice fotografia ed è invece un’immagine che reca in sé un elemento che contraddistinguerà le vicende umane e professionali di Letizia Battaglia: un coraggio tipicamente femminile (nomen omen). Santi Caleca è in quegli anni il compagno della fotografa che aveva (primo atto di coraggio) divorziato dal marito e anche, in via temporanea, da Palermo, per iniziare una nuova vita sotto il segno dell’ottava arte (secondo atto di coraggio che ripeterà sempre: «sono diventata fotografa a trentanove anni» e...

On architecture’s turn toward deep time 

“MIAMI’S A SUNNY PLACE for shady people!” observed Iggy Pop in a 2008 interview with CNN, just a few years after Art Basel landed on the sandbar that is South Beach and forever altered the landscape of both Miami and contemporary art. “I’m practical, where this place is moody [. . .] and I’m materialistic […]

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La storia artistica di Carmine Rezzuti non devo certamente presentarvela io: Rezzuti è un artista che ha saputo raccontarsi, nel tempo, con genio raffinato e una profonda e simbolica narrazione iconografica. Le sue scelte hanno sempre attraversato l’immaginifico, sia quando ha lavorato in esperienze site-specific, sia quando tutto è nato spontaneamente nel silenzio del suo studio, immaginando spazi da contaminare e luoghi da percorrere con estro e originalità.
Carmine Rezzuti, vista d’insieme della mostra “…Di Notte” alla Galleria Frame Arts et Artes di Napoli. Foto di Rita A. Fusco
C’è qualcosa di primitivo e apotropaico nelle opere di Rezzuti, qualcosa che ci appartiene, un’intimità che...

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“I don't aim for my art to be political, but because I have my own perspective and worldview, that inevitably comes through in the art,” says Shyama Golden. Read Silke Tudor's full article on the artist by clicking above.
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