gisela colón’s optical sculptures
 
Glimmering and iridescent, a series of otherworldly monuments by Gisela Colón traces how material can shape experience from within. The artist has installed her sculptures, which she often refers to her works as pods or monoliths, across the dramatic landscapes of Cairo, the Netherlands, AlUla, and even her home of Puerto Rico, to name a few — in each case, they respond directly to the conditions of each site.
 
Their polished surfaces carry an immediate impression of visual awe, the result of their layered constructions. Built from aerospace carbon fiber and optical acrylic films, they produce color through the internal movement of light, allowing shifts in...

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Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Oluremi C. Onabanjo Heads to The MetThe Metropolitan Museum of Art has a new curator of photographs: Oluremi C. Onabanjo, a scholar with a deep commitment to African and Black diasporic histories of the medium. Born in London and raised in Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United States, she heads to The Met from the Museum of Modern Art, where she's held curatorial roles in the photography department since 2021, working on exhibitions of Ernest Cole, Ming Smith, and others. Among her celebrated publications is Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos...

The Getty Center in Los Angeles’s Brentwood neighborhood will shutter for a year while it undergoes a major restoration, its first since opening in 1997. The closure will begin March 15, 2027, with the institution expected to reopen on March 15 of the following year, ahead of the Summer Olympics, which are being held in Los Angeles. […]

After years of controversies, the organisation that oversees Louisiana’s ten state museums will have to wait until next year for the American Alliance of Museums’ ruling

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City has appointed Melissa Chiu as its new director, starting September 1. Bookending her 12-year tenure at the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, Chiu will make her return to New York at a particularly challenging period for both museum networks. Chiu's appointment is part of Guggenheim Foundation Director and CEO Mariët Westermann's restructuring of the institution's global leadership team ahead of the opening of a controversial Abu Dhabi outpost, scheduled for later this year. According to a press release, Westermann will hand the reins of the flagship Manhattan museum to Chiu in order to...

When the David Prize recently asked if I could record a segment of What’s the Big Idea, a series that asks leaders about their visions for New York City, mine was crystal clear: a Materials for the Arts (MFTA) in all five boroughs. A program of the Department of Cultural Affairs, MFTA is New York City’s largest reuse center supporting nonprofits with arts programming, public schools, social justice and social service groups, and City agencies across all five boroughs with free art supplies. We were founded by visionary artist Angela Fremont in 1978 under the leadership of commissioner Henry Geldzahler during Ed Koch’s mayoral administration. Almost half a century later, Materials for the Arts remains a...

“I can’t help but think of the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Called by aliens, the main character sculpting the mountain over and over again.”This is how Fia Backström describes her experience of West Virginia in The Great Society, on view at the Queens Museum. The comparison echoes a long history of Appalachia being framed as strange and backward.For Backström, West Virginians might seem alien. For me, they are family and friends.I am writing on behalf of GRIT, a collective of artists raised in economically disadvantaged rural communities, the majority from West Virginia. We offer a counternarrative to Lauren O’Neill-Butler’s “How to Tell the Story of Extraction in Appalachia,”...

Gabriele Münter, "Portrait of Mrs. Olga von Hartmann” (c. 1910–11), oil on board (all photos Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)When a woman artist is among a milieu of more successful men, the comments often go like this: “She’s just as good as them.” Or, for an artist couple, “she was his inspiration.” Gabriele Münter, the Berlin-born modernist who co-founded the German Expressionist group The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) in 1911, isn’t exactly overlooked; she’s had multiple institutional surveys, and her former home in Murnau, Germany, is now a museum. Yet in the United States, she lacks the name recognition of her male contemporaries, in particular her partner of 10...

The longtime director of the Smithsonian museum in Washington, DC, will return to the Big Apple after 12 years away

“Wind carries away destinies,” reads the brief synopsis for a short film titled “Jour de Vent,” or “Windy Day.” The sweeping animation was created in 2024 by a team of six graduates—Martin Chailloux, Ai Kim Crespin, Élise Golfouse, Chloé Lab, Hugo Taillez, Camille Truding—from École des Nouvelle Images school in Avignon, France. A cast of characters—including a businessman, a picnicking family, a young couple, a cyclist, an old man and his dog, and a guitarist—spend a seemingly average day at the park. When a powerful gust wind blows everyone’s day out of proportion, themes of change, acceptance, and connection emerge. Much like the film’s surrender to the flow of life, the team...

Ornellaia, the maker of Super Tuscan wines near the medieval town of Bolgheri, has revealed the designs it has commissioned performance artist Marina Abramović to make for its 2023 vintages. Part of the vintner’s Vendemmia d’Artista project, Abramović has created designs for the standard 750ml bottle, as well as its larger 3L, 6L, and 9L bottles. While the 750 ml have a much larger production, Ornellaia only makes 100 bottles in the 3L size, 10 in the 6L, and one in the 9L. Several of these limited-edition bottles with be auctioned in June at Bonhams, with proceeds benefitting the Guggenheim Museum’s upcoming exhibition “Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now,” opening in June. Each size has a different work,...

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has hired a star photography curator away from MoMA, Artnews reports. Oluremi C. Onabanjo, formerly the Museum of Modern Art’s Peter Schub Curator, will join the Met as its new curator in the Department of Photographs.  “I am honored to join The Met at such a dynamic moment as it looks ahead to the […]

Melissa Chiu, who has served as director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, for over a decade, will leave the institution to helm the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She will take up her new post on September 1. Chiu was appointed by Dr. Mariët Westermann who has been the Director and CEO of the […]

OMA extends runway scenography into the city of Shanghai
 
OMA / AMO collaborates with Maison Margiela on MaisonMargiela/Folders, a multi-city exhibition unfolding across Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, and Shenzhen until April 13th, 2026. Conceived as a distributed format, the project translates the enduring codes of the house, known for its avant-garde designs, into spatial experiences dispersed across the urban fabric, marking the first collaboration between the fashion label and the architecture studio led by Rem Koolhaas.
 
In Shanghai, this approach materializes through a sequence of shipping containers positioned directly within the city. The intervention extends the scenographic language developed for...

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 Street category: Victor Cambet.
Based in Montréal, Victor Cambet developed photography as a self-taught practice after relocating to Canada from Lyon, France. Drawn to vivid scenes, unusual characters, and the overlooked details of daily life, his work finds beauty in the ordinary.
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...

Dartmouth students are renewing their efforts to rename the campus’s Black Family Visual Arts Center, a building that was funded via a donation contributed by Leon Black, a billionaire investor and longtime associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  The issue was raised at the first Dartmouth Student Government meeting of the spring term, where freshman Oscar Rempe-Hiam said […]

The future of a 5th-century church in Glasgow, known locally as “Govan Old,” has been in a state of flux for the past decade. In 2016, according to a report by the BBC, the Govan Heritage Trust began managing the site (Govan is the name of a district in southwest Glasgow) and announced a plan to “develop the church into a self-sustaining community-run cultural, museum and business complex.” Several years prior, in 2008, the Govan Old congregation joined forces with two other local churches to form the Govan & Lighthouse Parish Church, now housed at the nearby New Govan Church. The location of the original Govan Old Parish Church was an active site of worship from the 5th century AD until 2007. The...

The Getty Center, the main campus for the Getty Foundation’s two Los Angeles museums, announced that it will close for renovations for about a year. The closure is expected to last from spring 2027 to spring 2028, meaning that the institution will reopen in time for the Olympics. The last public day of the museum will be in about 11 months from now, on March 15, 2027. In a release, the Getty termed the renovations “modernization initiatives,” which would be the first since the museum opened in 1997. The goal, per the release, is to “elevate the overall visitor experience, enhance accessibility, strengthen energy resilience and support the long-term stewardship of the site’s iconic campus.” The...

There was a time when monuments were meant to be visited; now, it seems, they can be owned—at least in parts. A section of the original staircase from the Eiffel Tower will go up for auction in Paris on May 21, CNN reported, offering collectors the chance to take home a fragment of one of the world’s most recognizable tourist attractions. Aspiring bidders will need more than just deep pockets—the estimate is set at $140,000-$175,000—they’ll also need deep real estate. The piece stands nearly nine-feet-tall and spans more than five feet across. The lot, handled by Artcurial, comprises 14 steps from the spiral staircase that once linked the tower’s second and third levels. Installed for the...

The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Maine closed on its purchase of a new building in the city’s downtown, as well as two adjacent parking lots late last month. The building, previously owned by MaineHealth, a major regional hospital system and the largest private employer in the state, was sold for $14 million. The plan is for the PMA to move its administrative offices to the new Free Street building, which is next door to the museum as a way to open up space for more galleries in its main building. “This acquisition is a milestone for PMA, allowing the next generation of our institution to grow in place in the Arts District,” Marcie Parker Griswold, head of communications for the museum, said in a...

Lyric Opera of Chicago announces its 2026-27 season.

Galicia, Spain-based artist Abi Castillo continues to create iterative self-portraits through her evolving ensemble of ceramic personas. Her delicate yet emotive figures are an invitation to consider the inner self, transformation, and the beauty of the natural world. Femininity, nature, and symbolism play a central role within Castillo’s sculptures, contrasting with the notion of concealment and ambiguity. “This ambivalence between mysticism and drama, between monstrosity and beauty, is all very present,” she explains in an artist statement. Though each ceramic character is distinct, her body of work carries overarching formal motifs including colorful hairstyles and wide eyes with light blue irises....

San Juan Capistrano Library #1 Amir Zaki No Dust to Settle Diane Rosenstein Gallery April 4 - May 9, 2026 by Jody Zellen The saying "waiting for the dust to settle" might refer to when things will calm down and return to normal. It could be said that "the dust never settles" and there is no state of definitive calmness because everything is in flux, both in life and in art. This might be taking the personal into account by reading too much into the title of Amir Zaki's current exhibition, his...

‘flying vegetation’: a breezy home blooms in vietnam
 
A housing project by H&P Architects, dubbed Flying Vegetation, rises among Vietnam‘s Thai Binh city where a dense urban fabric is opened up by a shared neighborhood garden. The house is recognized at once by its planted facade that mediates the threshold between interior space and the street and uses vegetation as both screen and living surface.
 
Across the front elevation, rows of terracotta pots are held within a light steel frame that rises the full height of the building. The pots are spaced to allow growth and airflow, forming a permeable screen that softens light, reduces dust, and introduces a shifting layer of green. Seen from the street,...

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THIS YEAR’S HONG KONG ART WEEK KICKED OFF amid an atmosphere that was equally festive, speculative, and reflective, yet marked by an undercurrent of anxiety. Still, somehow, with the war in Iran, art market uncertainty, and general economic upheaval, the week saw an overwhelming number of events, including the opening of three alternative fairs, several […]

This April, galleries from around the world come together as part of The Photography Show, taking place at the Park Avenue Armory in the heart of New York. Now in its 45th edition, the Fair features 80 galleries, alongside a further 20 photobook exhibitors. The much-anticipated event, hosted by AIPAD, represents a longstanding commitment to deepening the collective understanding of photography’s history, whilst spotlighting some of the most dynamic examples of contemporary experimentation.   Visitors will encounter some of the most dynamic artists working today. Oscura Gallery presents the work of Rania Matar, a Lebanese artist whose portraits of Middle Eastern women explore issues of personal and...

In the little town of Kosciusko, Mississippi, a self-described “unusual artist” named L.V. Hull transformed her home and garden of three-and-a-half decades into an elaborate, continuous artwork. Through found objects and trinkets, paint, and glue she purchased at the local Walmart, the artist created an immersive art environment—a riot of color, patterns, and textures in which creativity merged with daily living. Many of Hull’s works are currently on view in the show Love Is a Sensation at the Mississippi Museum of Art, which celebrates the self-taught artist’s eclectic approach to materials and space. From vibrantly painted everyday objects to idiosyncratic assemblages, Hull’s creativity and...

Kaija Saariaho’s spectral, shattering Innocence makes its Metropolitan Opera debut.

twin steel pavilions reinterpret gable-roof viewing platforms
 
Located in a coastal valley in Xiangshan, Ningbo, China, Twin Pavilions replaces an underused viewing deck with two steel structures overlooking the sea. The project, conceived by the collaborative team between Atelier LuxNox and Found Projects, reinterprets the original gable-roof form as two single-pitch volumes arranged perpendicular to one another. Concrete walls beneath the structures define circulation and form a semi-enclosed courtyard facing the coastline. The two pavilions share a common structural system and material palette while developing distinct identities.
overall view toward the sea | all images courtesy of Atelier LuxNox...

The centre’s art-filled campus will open in June, but visitors to Expo Chicago can get a preview of its art commissions in two special curated sections of the fair

The first major US exhibition of the conceptual artist in more than five decades presents his multi-sensory work and habit of making and remaking as “very, very today”

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We are living in uncertain times. The past 12 months have offered unprecedented political, societal and environmental shifts. Wildfires raged across Europe and America, destroying countless homes and habitats, leaving thousands displaced. The war in Ukraine entered its fourth year, whilst the United States conducted military strikes again Iran. A new Pope was appointed – the first to hail from America. The Artemis II mission saw humans travel further from Earth than ever before. Photojournalists have been there from every key moment, bringing hidden stories to light and documenting history as it happens – from warzones, revolutions and protests to quiet hospital wards and families around the breakfast...

The new collections hub page speaks to an “institutional commitment to accountability and transparency”, the museum’s director Tristram Hunt said

cinema drifting into dream
 
Cinema begins to shift when it no longer guarantees that one thing follows another for a reason. Narrative usually secures that relation. It tells us why something happens, what it leads to, who it belongs to. But there is a body of films where this chain loosens, to replace causality with association, recurrence, and displacement. In these films, meaning does not arrive through progression. It accumulates through proximity, stretching the plot until it begins to lose its shape and start resembling a dream state.
 
Across films by filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, and Charlie Kaufman, this shift appears gradually, in the way scenes return without...

Jessye Norman really embraces elements of the song falling somewhere between classical art song and popular ballad.

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There’s just two weeks left to submit your work for The City Series: Cambridge!
An ongoing series of publications, The City Series sets out to explore the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, showcasing images that respond to a place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
The inaugural volume explores a city that has welcomed us, and been home to nearly a dozen Shutter Hub exhibitions – Cambridge.
Rather than defining Cambridge by landmarks or narratives, we invite photographers to approach the city openly, perhaps through people, atmosphere, details, routines, abstractions, or moments that feel personal or unexpected....

A Berlino, presso Kornfeld Galerie, è possibile visitare una mostra che tramite il colore rimanda all’accettazione dell’imprevedibilità, del passare del tempo e dell’irreversibilità degli eventi. La mostra, curata da Charles Moore, espone le opere dell’artista Nick Dawes che da anni sperimenta la casualità dell’effetto del colore tramite un processo nel quale l’attenzione, la cura e l’accettazione dell’imprevedibilità del segno sono elementi essenziali utili a creare una struttura visiva che emerge direttamente dall’interazione del gesto con la materia.
Nick Dawes, “Trace Elements”, installation view, courtesy Kornfeld Gallery, Berlin
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Colossal Members have helped us reach a fantastic milestone! We’re delighted to share that this month, we’ve officially assisted in funding 100 projects in classrooms around the nation via DonorsChoose. These include supplies and materials for K-12 students, some of whom are learning about and experiencing art for the first time. A portion of all Membership fees are allocated to this initiative, and so far we’ve been able to contribute more than $13,000, making a substantial difference in numerous learning spaces. And since we’re based in Chicago, we especially like to support classrooms here at home. Here’s what a few recent recipients had to say after their projects were funded: “These supplies...

For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA launched a mission to the Moon. A lot has changed since 1972, when we last checked in on the enormous, rocky satellite, but there is much to learn—and revisit—when it comes to traveling through deep space and considering what, as NASA describes it, a “long-term return” to our lunar companion could look like. The Artemis II mission, which is currently underway and scheduled to last a total of 10 days, has also released some remarkable images of our home planet. A striking image of the Earth “setting” behind the cratered Moon takes a truly unique view of our planet and prompts us to consider our perspective. It’s reminiscent of one of the most iconic...

American tenor Charles Castronovo performs a bit of Weber's Der Freischütz ahead of the opportunity to hear Berlioz's take on the score at Carnegie Hall next week.

The inaugural New Orleans Opera Festival goes big across the Big Easy.

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This spring, Malta Biennale returns for its second edition. Launched in 2024, the event lies at the intersection of contemporary art and cultural heritage, marrying the two together through its exhibitions and historic venues. Across 11 weeks, museums and sites are transformed, adding new layers to the country’s already complex and colourful history, turning the Maltese Islands into a melting pot of international artistic activity. The 2026 theme is Clean | Clear | Cut, with 130 artists from 43 nations presenting work that tackles the topic. Mario Cutajar, Biennale President and Heritage Malta Chairman, says: “The second edition of the Biennale is going to cement the future of this international...

Spring in London brings a wave of artistic innovation, and none more compelling than the archival exhibition of Senga Nengudi at Whitechapel Gallery. Running from 1 April to 14 June, the show offers a glimpse into the work of an artist whose practice spans sculpture, performance and choreography. Nengudi’s work exists at the intersection of the corporeal and the sculptural, exploring the elasticity of materials, the rhythms of movement and the lived experience of the body. Through photographs, films and archival material, the exhibition illuminates the experimentation that defined her most productive period between 1972 and 1982. It is an opportunity to encounter a body of work both historically significant...

C’è una frase di San Giovanni Crisostomo, pronunciata nel 362 d.C., che parla della prossimità dei fedeli ai corpi dei martiri, di cosa significa stare vicini a qualcosa di sacro, di quanto quella vicinanza trasformi chi la abita. È da lì che parte Più di ogni corpo, la mostra che Panorama, spazio espositivo indipendente situato nel sestiere di San Marco, dedica a Chiara Cecconello e Nadezda Golysheva fino al 19 aprile 2026. Il titolo non è un prestito decorativo, piuttosto una soglia concettuale attraverso cui le due artiste, con linguaggi molto diversi tra loro, entrano in dialogo con la Chiesa di San Zulian, che affaccia sullo stesso campiello dello spazio, e con le domande che quella chiesa porta...

Intimacy is never simple. It is a tension between visibility and concealment, between the everyday and the exceptional, a fragile architecture of perception and emotion. In Under the Sunlight, There is No True Intimacy, No.223 charts this territory with a lens that hovers between observation and empathy, illuminating moments that are at once fleeting and enduring. Desire is the undercurrent of the work, a force that navigates social expectation while asserting private freedom. The exhibition evokes the pulse of life in its subtle rhythms: a glance exchanged in a sunlit corner, the quiet geometry of bodies in motion, the way urban and natural spaces seem to whisper with latent meaning. These photographs do not...

Mark Rothko (Daugavpils, 1903 – New York, 1970) è uno degli artisti più iconici del Novecento: oltre ad aver rivoluzionato la storia della pittura in quanto riferimento imprescindibile per una certa e ben frequentata linea di ricerca astratta, il suo linguaggio ha mantenuta intatta la sua vitalità con il passare del tempo. Al di là di ogni considerazione storicizzante, il suo lavoro è capace di suscitare oggi le stesse emozioni e lo stesso coinvolgimento del periodo in cui era una novità dirompente. A distanza di quasi vent’anni dall’ultima retrospettiva istituzionale a lui dedicata in Italia (6/10/2007 – 6/01/2008 al Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma), l’artista è al centro di un altro...

When Frode Bolhuis got his start as a sculptor, he worked classically, with monumental figures made of bronze and metal—the kind of thing you see in a public square or park. But then the Dutch sculptor discovered the simplest of mediums, polymer clay, and his art practice exploded into a technicolor world of hue and […]
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Arte cinetica – un omaggio di Ferruccio Gard a Vasarely è una mostra nata da una coincidenza significativa: il 2026 segna i 120 anni dalla nascita di Victor Vasarely, padre dell’Op Art, e i 50 anni della Fondation Vasarely, istituzione che continua a custodire e diffondere la sua eredità. Nel contempo, Ferruccio Gard celebra i suoi 85, scegliendo di rendere omaggio al maestro ungherese con cui condivide la passione per la percezione, il colore e il movimento.
Ferruccio Gard, “Dinamiche strutturali 4”, 1969, acrilici su tela, cm 40 x 50, courtesy dell’Artista
Vasarely ha definito una grammatica visiva nuova, fondata su moduli geometrici, variazioni sistematiche e un’idea di arte universale,...

Nel contemporaneo, l’emersione di un’opera dipende dalle trame che ne governano accesso e trasmissione epistemica. Curatori, istituzioni, fiere e mecenati formano un ecosistema di validazione di rilevanza che decide quali espressioni affiorano e quali restano ai margini. L’interpretazione della statura intellettuale e la ricezione sociale derivano dal rapporto tra gli agenti, procedure e strumenti coordinati, favorendo il rafforzamento di una egemonia nella sfera performativa.
Frieze London 2025. Photo by Linda Nylind, courtesy of Frieze
La gestione della diffusione delle opere ha subito evoluzioni nel corso del tempo. Nel XIX secolo, enti disciplinari e rassegne canoniche regolavano stili, temi e...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, with an abundance of invigorating artistic narratives emerging across forms and disciplines, even as the wider climate feels increasingly unsettled. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity to the mayhem of today’s world. You can read the interview here . We...

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When the Bulls Fest—a raging celebration of the iconic and famed NBA team—first happened at Chicago’s United Center in 2022, Kyle Cobban was one of the contributing artists to The Art of the Game exhibition. It’s a piece that encapsulates Cobban’s aesthetic vision. Working with graphite and paper, the Chicago-based artist makes small, detailed drawings […]
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