The Vancouver-based real estate tycoon has gifted works by two Canadian artists and two US artists to Canada’s national art museum

Laura Phipps, the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (photo by and courtesy Roeg Cohen)Laura Phipps, former associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been tapped as the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (GFC). The news comes as the New York City organization prepares to open a permanent exhibition space along the Hudson River Valley this coming fall, creating a home for its renowned selection of contemporary Indigenous art.Co-founded in 2021 by philanthropist Becky Gochman and former gallerist Zach Feuer, the GFC is a private lending collection that primarily amplifies living Indigenous artists — including Cara Romero, Marilou Schultz, Ishi Glinsky, and Raven...

The second edition of the Malta Biennale opened in previews this week, and it was not without controversy. Women on Waves, a nonprofit that provides information on safe abortion in restrictive settings, accused the Biennale’s organizers of “censoring” an artwork by the organization just before the opening on Tuesday. The work originally featured a banner reading Need Abortion Pills? in English and Maltese. According to a press release from Women on Waves, the banner was altered, at the Biennale’s request, to read Do You Need a Safe Abortion?, with the word Pills crossed out. The nonprofit said organizers then informed them that these changes were “not suitable” and that a new banner would need to...

Italy has purchased a rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million ($34.7 million), one of the largest sums ever paid by the state for a work of art, according to the country’s culture ministry. The painting, depicting the cleric Monsignor Maffeo Barberini—who would later ascend as Pope Urban VIII—was described as being of “exceptional importance,” Alessandro Giuli, Italy’s culture minister, said in a statement. The portrait had been kept in a private collection in Florence and was first shown publicly in 2004 in Rome. Following its purchase by the Italian state, it was transferred to the permanent collection of the Palazzo Barberini, the historic residence of the Barberini family, where it will be...

Award season now arrives less as a sequence of events than as a continuous atmosphere. Announcements blur into ceremonies, ceremonies into press cycles, press cycles into speculation about the next stage. The art world has begun to mirror this rhythm, producing its own awards, its own stages, its own moments of recognition that appear to consolidate value and, more importantly, authority in real time. These developments often arrive framed as care. Recognition. Visibility. Support. They emerge at a moment when artists are navigating shrinking public funding, rising costs, and increasingly precarious conditions. The alignment is difficult to ignore. What is being offered as recognition often operates as a way...

On March 2, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal for computer scientist Stephen Thaler’s attempt to secure copyright protection for an AI-generated image. The decision upheld a DC Circuit Court ruling which maintained that human authorship is an essential requirement for copyright as per the 1976 US Copyright Act. Thaler’s attempts to attain a copyright for […]

LONDON — Death can be such a miserable nose-dive for any artist. Lucian Freud is deep into the 15th year of his posthumous life as a celebrated figurative painter. Where do the custodians of his reputation take him from here? I am asking myself this question in London, where Lucian stalked abroad in his studio in the city’s W9 area, in his clumpy old boots, for so long, brushes all a-bristle. And, more particularly this morning, in the National Portrait Gallery, an institution that backs up against the National Gallery as if the two were a brace of vain aristocratic duelists. This place has shown Freud off to great effect, more than once within relatively recent memory. Does anyone want to hear the small,...

Weeks after the University of North Texas (UNT) abruptly axed an exhibition of works criticizing the treatment of immigrants in the United States, newly obtained internal communications show how university administrators deliberated their controversial action.According to public records first reported by independent journalist Adam Schrader and reviewed by Hyperallergic, the Texas university's Provost Michael McPherson and President Harrison Keller discussed cancelling Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez’s show Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá in private text messages. Since the school canceled the exhibition without explanation in February, free speech groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas,...

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In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Pedro Friedeberg (1936–2026)Mexican artist and designerBorn in Italy, the artist and designer was known for surreal designs and paintings that incorporated body parts and animals, though he was perhaps most famous for his iconic Hand Chair. He is often associated with the Mexican Surrealists, but rejected the association himself. Thaddeus Mosley (1926–2026)Beloved Pittsburgh sculptorLate artist Thaddeus Mosley (photo courtesy Nate Guidry Photography and Karma gallery, New York)The internationally renowned sculptor and beloved Pittsburgh artist made carved figures out of salvaged wood. Inspired by...

YYAA Renovates only the eastern half of an old Japanese house
 
Kusafushi House, designed by YYAA, is the renovation of the eastern half of a pre–WWII rowhouse located in Yagi-cho, Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The project focuses on adapting an abandoned historic structure while retaining elements of the existing building fabric and responding to the evolving character of the surrounding townscape.
 
Yagi-cho developed as a prosperous post town for more than a thousand years. Unlike the nearby district of Imai-cho, where Edo-period buildings are legally preserved, Yagi-cho has fewer regulations governing its historical environment. As a result, many pre-Showa buildings in the area have been...

Crypto-based art is more than just cartoon apes and Beeple works

In mid-2025, the Trump administration rescinded $9 billion in public media funding and foreign aid, including $1.1 billion slated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CBP). CBP, in turn, was responsible for distributing funding to organizations like National Public Radio (NPR), Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and their member stations across the nation. The corporation was established following a 1967 law called the Public Broadcasting Act, but just like that, when the funds were no longer there, CBP voted to dissolve. What did NPR have to say about that? Its “mission will continue, unchanged.” NPR aims “to create a more informed public—one challenged and invigorated by a deeper...

Initially, Garth Greenan didn’t realize that the lease for his current space on West 20th Street in Chelsea would expire on the eve of his eponymous gallery’s 15th anniversary. But once he did, he took it as a sign to start a new chapter for the business. In September, Garth Greenan Gallery will relocate to SoHo and open in two spaces across the street from each other, at 10 Greene Street and 25 Greene Street. The gallery’s solo exhibition for Esteban Cabeza de Baca, which closed on February 27, was its last in Chelsea. Both forthcoming galleries are located in landmarked, cast-iron buildings and their interiors will be retrofitted by Stuart Basseches Architect in collaboration with Konstantinos...

Convicted fraudster’s sentencing pushed back amid widening dispute between family, foundation and authenticators

The extremely bohemian East Village loft that photographer Robert Frank and artist June Leaf called home for more than 40 years is on the market, with an asking price of $6.5 million. That hefty sum will gain you access to no small amount of Lower Manhattan lore, as the two artists made their home/studio at 7 Bleecker Street, near the Bowery, a sort of meeting place for New York’s finest creatives of all kinds. As noted by Curbed, “Unlike other artists who showed at MoMA and sold at auction for hundreds of thousands, Frank made himself easy to find—setting out a folding chair onto the sidewalk, often alongside a second seat for his wife, the sculptor June Leaf.” Frank died in 2019, after a long life...

314 Architecture Studio’s winery emerges from the vineyards
 
Among the vineyards of Nemea in the Peloponnese, Greece, 314 Architecture Studio imagines a winery that takes the form of a circular structure partially embedded within the terrain, titled Metamorphosis. The project, whose planted roof extends to the surrounding vineyards on its surface, reads from afar almost like a geological formation.
 
The concept unfolds through a speculative narrative in which the winery resembles a flying saucer that once landed among the vineyards thousands of years ago. Over time, the alien object was not rejected by nature but slowly absorbed by it. Vegetation spread across its surface and soil wrapped itself around...

Beeple’s robotic beasties—first unveiled as a questionably crowd-drawing spectacle at Art Basel Miami Beach last December—are heading to a museum. The installation, Regular Animals (2025), will be presented at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin from April 29 to May 10, coinciding with Gallery Weekend Berlin. The work features a pack of porcine-robotic quadrupeds fitted with grotesquely lifelike heads modeled after figures including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and the artist himself.  Originally staged inside a plexiglass pen at Art Basel’s new digital-art section, the machines roam the space, capturing their surroundings with built-in cameras. Each...

The snuffboxes, made in 18th-century Berlin, come from the Gilbert Collection, and will go on display in a new gallery space at the V&A in South Kensington

Guardian investigation highlighting 263,000 remains is a wake-up call for government, says Oxford professor

Wooden drum machine, sequencer and sampler in one
 
Meet Tembo, a chess-like instrument that mixes a drum machine, sequencer, and sampler in one wooden device. Designed by the startup team Musical Beings, it triggers sounds using small magnetic pieces called Beats that users place physically onto a wooden grid. Each position on the grid activates a step in a rhythmic loop. Basically, when the user puts this magnetic piece on the surface, they hear and produce a sound. When they move it, they change the rhythm. So, adding more means building a pattern of sounds, creating a complete track. 
 
The controls of the wooden drum machine, sequencer, and sampler are minimal, starting with two large knobs at the...

Dries Van Noten foundation to open in april 2026
 
Fondazione Dries Van Noten is set to open in April 2026 inside Venice’s Palazzo Pisani Moretta, positioning craftsmanship as a material, bodily, and imaginative act at the core of a new cultural platform. Overlooking the Grand Canal and located between the Rialto Bridge and Ca’ Foscari, the foundation is situated within a historic palazzo, proposing a framework that frames making as the common ground through which culture is formed, transmitted, and renewed. ‘Venice is more than a weekend destination; it’s a city full of life, from its markets to its young residents, with a one-of-a-kind cultural stimulus,’ notes Dries Van Noten.
 
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In the spectacular, lofty photos of Dani Guindo, heavy clouds and mercurial pools glow amid an Icelandic landscape. The Spanish artist, based in Reykjavík, seeks unique relationships between light, form, and atmosphere. In Iceland, the vicissitudes of the weather and the stark, glacial landscape continually stoke his interests. Guindo typically uses drones to capture a wide range of angles, from panoramas of glaciers and mountains to vertical shots of silty streams that appear almost abstract. His latest series, Terminus, captures a glacier’s many rivulets amid a rocky landscape, along with a ghostly, rounded outline revealing evidence of the glacier’s earlier phases. The glacier is Múlajökull, which...

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Parterre Box features a performance from two belcantisti who would rather you not think about their political affiliations.

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Perkins&Will composes a multi-family complex in Ubatuba
 
Bambu Atmosfera is a multi-family residential complex in Ubatuba, São Paulo, designed by Perkins&Will. The project integrates architecture, landscape, and shared amenities while emphasizing local materials, passive environmental strategies, and community-oriented spaces within Brazil’s Atlantic Forest coastline. Located on a flat site between the ocean and rainforest, the development responds to a humid tropical climate characterized by high solar exposure and frequent rainfall. The design uses climate and landscape as primary drivers, prioritizing natural ventilation, shading, and daylight to support thermal comfort and reduce reliance on...

There is an air of the spectral to Fiona Pardington’s recent photographs of birds. While they are actual specimens, captured in atmospheric light and exhibiting unique plumage and expressions, there’s something a little bit uncanny about them. Are they real? In a sense, yes, but they’re no longer alive. Some no longer even exist. For Pardington, who is of Māori and Scottish descent, natural history specimens provide a unique and striking look at nature. And the photos seen here, comprising part of her series Taharaki Skyside, are slated for the artist’s exhibition in the Aotearoa New Zealand Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year. Pardington’s bold, large-scale portraits of birds native to New...

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In art and life, the future has emerged as both a caution and a possibility. The climate crisis, accelerating technologies and new planetary infrastructures now shape the narratives artists construct about tomorrow. Increasingly, creative practice is less about prediction and more about rehearsal, imagining how humanity might navigate the realities unfolding. The news cycle right now shows a new senseless war, and this, coupled with Gaza and Ukraine, sees the planet inching closer and closer to that doomsday clock.  Immersive exhibitions have emerged as powerful arenas for this speculative thinking, intersecting art, science fiction and design, They allow audiences not merely to observe but to inhabit...

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Nello spazio espositivo zerozerosullivellodelmare a Pescara, diretto da Lúcio Rosato, è in corso la mostra “In gioco” del collettivo artistico abruzzese Di Bernardo Rietti Toppeta. La mostra è un’indagine sull’evoluzione del gioco nel tempo e sul gioco inteso come terreno fertile in cui le potenzialità intellettuali dell’individuo possono evolversi, soprattutto recuperando il contatto con la Natura e stabilendo delle connessioni sociali e umane, non soltanto virtuali. Il progetto nasce come riflessione su come la nascita delle nuove tecnologie e lo sviluppo dei videogiochi, abbiano influito soprattutto sulle nuove generazioni e sulla loro percezione della realtà, modificando il loro modo di...

Around 1897, the French director Georges Méliès made a silent short film that, until last month, hadn’t been publicly viewable for more than a century. “Gugusse et l’Automate,” or “Gugusse and the Automaton,” is a 45-second slapstick piece featuring a magician and a Pierrot-styled robot as they duke it out. Méliès is best known for “A Trip to the Moon,” a short film from 1902 that famously features astromoners landing their capsule into the eye of the moon. The director’s work is widely regarded as some of the first within fantasy and science fiction, with “Gugusse et l’Automate” being a long-lost addition to his canon. This film resurfaced recently when Bill McFarland drove from...

Laura Phipps has been announced as the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (GFC), a private collection devoted to contemporary Indigenous art. Phipps arrives to the collection from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, where she was an associate curator. In her new capacity, she will serve as a public advocate for Native artists and guide the […]

A guerrilla art installation featuring the names and visages of twenty public figures who’ve been linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared in a public park close to the White House in Washington, DC earlier this month. No individual or group has yet claimed authorship of the “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame,” which consists of […]

On A Body to Live In, Fakir Musafar's documentary about a body-modification pioneer

By Kristine Schomaker I keep seeing Liberal Jane's work pop up across different platforms - Instagram, obviously, but also sliding through Facebook, saved in Pinterest boards, shared in group chats. This immersion matters more than I think we acknowledge. These aren't gallery pieces waiting for the right audience to find them. They're already embedded in the actual digital infrastructure where people are trying to survive right now. Caitlin Blunnie has been making this work for seven years,...

The Contemporary Art Center (CAC) Vilnius has appointed artist Nikita Kadan and art historian, writer, and curator Natalia Sielewicz curators of the Sixteenth Baltic Triennial, to take place in 2027. Kadan, who lives and works in Kyiv, is known for paintings and installations reckoning with history, memory, and trauma; Sielewicz is chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and the […]

Is there anything more soothing than a sleeping baby swan—known as a cygnet? Or anything more illustrative of the relationship between nature and urban development in the U.K. than the red fox, which are seen in neighborhoods as often as in the wild? For this year’s British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA), photographers from around Great Britain and its islands—including young, budding documentarians—highlight some of the region’s most beloved creatures. Paul Hobson’s black-and-white image of a leaping, silhouetted toad takes top honors this year, captured at a pond near his home in Sheffield. He snapped the photo from inside the pond, having built a glass box that could settle into the water...

Time to Act at Pittsburgh Opera effectively employs Greek tragedy to explore the all-too-common tragedies haunting schools across the United States.

Daguerreotypes. Photograms. Double exposure. Today, we’re spotlighting five experimental photography exhibitions. These shows feature a mix of 20th century pioneers, like Lillian Bassman, whose visionary work redefined fashion and fine art photography, alongside contemporary practitioners such as Garry Fabian Miller and Liz Nielsen, who continue to explore light, colour and process in groundbreaking ways. Across these exhibitions, each image challenges perception, interrogates memory and celebrates the material and conceptual possibilities of lens-based medium. This is traditional imagery, reimagined. Liz Nielsen: Interdimensional Timelines  Joseloff Gallery at Hartford School of Art | Until 11 April ...

No one in my experience both live and on records could swagger, spin out roulades, and ripple through Rossini and Handel like Samuel Ramey.

Before hearing Samuel Ramey as Zaccaria in Nabucco, I had always been more interested in higher voices.

Parks. Railway stations. City halls. Hotels. Theatres. Abstract artist Tada Minami (1924-2014) was committed to practice that spanned beyond the confines of the museum. She often left her creations in urban spaces, where they have since formed an integral part of everyday life. Across an almost 70-year career, she covered huge ground, varying her approach to both material and scale. Her works include massive, stainless-steel sculptures that appear to rise sharply skywards; glass and acrylic constructions that reflect the environment; and “Illuminated Walls,” which contain richly-coloured light. Tada is emblematic of a postwar Japan that was rapidly modernising, transforming itself into the nation of...

In alcuni artisti la creatività è fortemente intrecciata al vissuto, mentre in altri la componente autobiografica è meno influente. Alla prima categoria di sicuro appartiene Robert Mapplethorpe, la cui produzione fotografica è connessa a un’esistenza diventata, nell’ultimo decennio, molto crudele e a una biografia personale che diventa sociale. All’osservatore capita così, di fronte alle sue fotografie, di non poter fare a meno di sentire il vissuto dell’artista, incrociandolo con le immagini, anche quando – e ne è la maggioranza – le immagini hanno un tono distante e opposto al dolore esistenziale. Un vissuto che si dipana, sia nella vita vera sia nella fotografia, anche pensando agli...

The Hasselblad Award is one of the world’s most prestigious accolades in photography. The prize – comprising a gold medal, camera, solo show and SEK 2,000,000 – has been given out annually since 1980, and its honourees read like a who’s who of contemporary image-making. Previous winners include Alfredo Jaar, Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, Graciela Iturbide, Jeff Wall, Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans, as well as icons of the 20th century like Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and William Eggleston. Now, Zanele Muholi (b. 1972) joins this list, becoming the 2026 laureate. Muholi has paved new ground by using the camera as a tool for visual activism, first and foremost claiming...

The Pacific Northwest is perhaps the wildest, most breathtaking region in the continental United States. With its combination of mountain ranges, conifer forests, lakes, rivers, and ancient sequoias looming over the California coast, the geography and texture of Wyoming, Montana, California, and Oregon return us to North America’s primordial past. It reminds us of when […]
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A captivating Asmik Grigorian leads the Bayerishce Staatsoper's revival of its Holocaust-set Salome. 

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Lo spazio del contemporaneo è lo spazio digitale; la maggior parte del nostro quotidiano si svolge a contatto con strumenti digitali, con display iper-connessi e con flussi incessanti. Byung-Chul Han legge il digitale come zona che produce, paradossalmente alle premesse originali, solitudine e frammentazione, “uno sciame di individui isolati” (Nello sciame, 2013). Invece, tra le pieghe di una città analogica che interroga il rapporto tra icone e contemporaneo come Venezia, una mostra collettiva apre su una prospettiva alternativa.  Restiamo umani! Utopie e Distopie nell’Era Digitale presso lo Spazio Berlendis a Venezia conclude la prima edizione del Premio Berlendis (promosso da Marignana Arte e...

Each year, on 8 March, countries around the world come together to celebrate International Women’s Day. The annual event was first held in 1911, when over one million people in Austria, Denmark and Germany took to the streets to mark the occasion. Today, it continues to be a moment to acknowledge the remarkable contribution of women and girls to society and to collectively demand more be done to achieve gender justice. To celebrate International Women’s Day 2026, we’re spotlighting 10 global exhibitions of women artists. Many address issues that are intimate and personal, often treated with taboo by society, but that continue to resonate with millions worldwide. Tracey Emin considers the body as a site...

È online il bando per partecipare alla 108ª Collettiva Giovani Artisti della Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, lo storico appuntamento dedicato alla scoperta e alla promozione dell’arte contemporanea emergente. Rivolta ad artiste e artisti under 30 che vivono o hanno scelto di risiedere nel Triveneto, la Collettiva è aperta a tutti i linguaggi del contemporaneo – pittura, scultura, installazione, video, performance e pratiche processuali – e prevede una sezione specifica dedicata al concorso per l’immagine grafica della manifestazione. Per il secondo anno consecutivo, l’iniziativa è parte integrante di CreArt 3.0 #stringing_together, progetto finanziato nell’ambito del Programma Europa Creativa....

Il lievito non lavora alla luce. Ha bisogno di calore, di tempo, di un ambiente giusto. Non si può accelerare: se provi a forzarlo, muore. Se lo lasci stare, trasforma tutto. Gli artisti, a volte, funzionano allo stesso modo. In biologia si chiama fermentazione: un processo in cui organismi microscopici – invisibili, pazienti – convertono una materia in qualcosa di completamente diverso. Non è magia. È chimica lenta. È la stessa cosa che succede quando un’idea entra in un corpo, ci rimane per mesi, e poi esce trasformata in qualcosa che prima non esisteva, magari in un’opera. Materica, polimaterica, performativa, sonora, non importa. Ora esiste. Vive. C’è. Da questa analogia – precisa, quasi...

Art history, in Hess' painting, is comprised of tiny renditions of famed works that are patch-worked together. They appear like reams of unfurled toilet paper that form vortices. One spiral extends into the past. Another spiral contains the twenty-first century... Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
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Sam Gibbons isn’t letting you off the hook. Sex, violence, religion, ego—everything comes together in colorful palettes unrestricted by shape or form. His rare, vibrant paintings are teeming with images both familiar and grotesque, and they’re demanding some careful attention Read the full article form our archives by clicking above.
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This collection includes work from 60+ artists and also happens to be our biggest volume yet—276 pages and, for the first time, in a much larger format.

Surrounded in her Massachusetts studio by pins, glue, and piles of brightly colored paper strips, a visitor might initially mistake Lisa Nilsson for a reclusive arts and crafts teacher. But as her nimble hands purposefully curl the paper into shapes, and then magically weave the shapes into identifiable forms, a new impression emerges. Read the full article by clicking above!
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