A month-long non-selling exhibition from the collection of the New Delhi patron will feature 60 Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi artists working from the 1950s to the present day

Members of the Wexner Center for the Arts union have called on university leadership to rename the institution, citing Leslie Wexner’s documented ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wexner Workers United announced on social media yesterday that it had sent a formal letter to Ohio State University president, provost, and board of trustees demanding that they remove the Wexner name from the building’s facade and begin the process of renaming the Wexner Center for the Arts. “As a contemporary arts center showcasing and commissioning the work of our present time, we are inherently entwined with the relevant and urgent events of today,” the letter reads. “Jeffrey Epstein’s orchestration of a...

Trump does not need Congressional approval to build a proposed 250-foot arch on Washington, DC’s Memorial Circle, on Columbia Island, officials are arguing, because a century-old report once called for a pair of 166-foot columns there, reports the Washington Post. Memorial Circle is managed by the National Parks Service and is classified as protected land, meaning Congress must authorize the construction of monuments there. The Post’s sources say that the Trump administration has no plans to ask Congress’s permission. Instead, Trump officials are citing as justification for the arch a 1924 report by a federal commission that designed the Arlington Memorial Bridge, which initially was to include a pair of...

On Tuesday, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs released its finalist shortlist for its planned public monument dedicated to legendary jazz and swing singer Billie Holiday. British sculptor Thomas J. Price and Bahamian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan are both among the top contenders, Artnet reported.  Price’s proposal, entitled Held Within, features two radically […]

Dior brings Alex Chinneck’s bent cityscapes to NYC and LA
 
Dior’s windows in New York and Beverly Hills have been taken over by Alex Chinneck’s warped versions of city life, from yellow taxis and traffic lights to street lamps, clocks, and cars. At the House of Dior New York on 57th Street and the Beverly Hills flagship in Los Angeles, the British artist has filled the glass-fronted facades with urban objects that seem to have softened under pressure.
 
The project celebrates the first anniversary of the two Dior locations and looks back to the House’s long relationship with the United States, which began in 1947. Chinneck picks up on that history through the language of the street. His sculptures...

The organizers of Art Basel Qatar have tapped Wassan Al-Khudhairi, a specialist in modern and contemporary Arab art and the onetime founding director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, to serve as artistic director of the 2027 edition. The event will take place January 28–30, 2027, with preview days on January 26 and 27, and […]

Making art in a new medium can pose a challenge for any artist, especially one as technically complex as neon. Now a new residency aims to alleviate those growing pains. The Walker Youngbird Foundation, a Native-led nonprofit focused on supporting Indigenous artists, has launched a new residency program in collaboration with Lite Brite Neon Studio in Kingston, New York. For the program, a Native artist who has never created work in neon will work with Lite Brite to fabricate a new piece in the medium. “We specifically asked for applicants who had never worked in neon before because we wanted to open the door for artists who had never worked in the medium, but had a desire to and never have the access to...

Greater New York, MoMA PS1’s recurring survey of artists based in the city, has managed to lure one of New York’s most high-profile sensations: Mayor Zohran Mamdani. On her Instagram, PS1 director Connie Butler posted news that Mamdani had personally visited Greater New York alongside Claire Valdez, a New York State Representative who is currently running for a seat in the House of Representatives. Valdez, like Mamdani, is affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America; Mamdani previously held a fundraiser in support of her campaign. “A great way to start the day with a visit from the mayor!” wrote Butler on her Instagram Story. In a follow-up Story, Butler posted an image of Mamdani and Valdez...

The French painter Eva Gonzalès, much like her mentor, Édouard Manet, did not personally identify as an Impressionist, nor did she participate in the group’s exhibitions.  Her velvety brushstrokes were faithful to the human form, indulged no illusion of perspective, and stated a belief that the female mind was a landscape in its own right—wild, deep, and worthy of veneration. In her 1874 A Loge at the Théâtre des Italiens, an operagoer, one glove missing, leans over a banister, fair skin radiant against the void.   Yet search Gonzalès online and she is almost always grouped with three female contemporaries—Mary Cassatt, Marie Bracquemond, and Berthe Morisot—as...

Art-Science Undisciplined, published by the University of California Press, is an invitation to rethink what collaboration can be. Rather than treating art and science as separate disciplines that occasionally exchange ideas, artist Janani Balasubramanian and astrophysicist Natalie Gosnell imagine collaboration as a shared practice of curiosity, experimentation, and transformation. Drawing from their own partnership and the experiences of other interdisciplinary creators, they offer a guide for building relationships rooted in mutual respect, imagination, and joy.Attentive to the realities of institutional demands, limited resources, and busy schedules, Art-Science Undisciplined offers strategies for...

Every year, there are two major migration events. Birds, insects, fish, and other mammals head north in the spring to nest and breed and return south in the winter to feed and raise their young. Using BirdCast, a tool that’s active seasonally and allows anyone to see bird migration “heat maps” around the U.S., ornithologists tracked a record-breaking one billion birds migrating on a single October night in 2023 (last year, that number reached 1.2 billion). But on the night spanning October 4 to 5, something else really big happened: nearly 1,000 birds died in Chicago after hitting a single building. McCormick Place Lakeside Center is situated along the Lake Michigan shoreline, set apart from many other...

kengo kuma and paul raff studio design new banff visitor center
 
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Toronto-based Paul Raff Studio have won the international competition to design a new visitor center and community space in Banff National Park, a major redevelopment project in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. Selected by Parks Canada and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the proposal reimagines Banff’s 200-block corridor as a low-profile, landscape-driven civic campus that merges visitor infrastructure with public gathering spaces, Indigenous consultation, and ecological sensitivity.
 
Rather than introducing a singular monumental building, the winning scheme unfolds as a cluster of wood,...

A partnership between Lite Brite Neon Studio and the Walker Youngbird Foundation, the residency will launch with the artist Sarah Rowe in September

Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego enchants and surprises despite the Disnified treatment of its subject matter.

Verdi’s Stiffelio goes Amish in Vienna, featuring a stellar Luciano Ganci in the title role.

Vanessa is spare and compelling in Heartbeat Opera's production.

The the 20th-century artists Tadeusz Kantor and Maria Jarema feature in a collateral exhibition at the 61st Biennale

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The first tranche of tickets can be booked from 1 July; members, meanwhile, will only be able to visit free-of-charge twice

TAKK’s multispecies landscape takes over MAXXI
 
The first thing visitors encounter inside the Zaha Hadid-designed MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts is a garden of signage and vegetation, glowing grow lights, circular sofas made for collective rest, and edible plants climbing upward through metallic structures. With con-vivere, the Barcelona- and New York-based studio TAKK transforms the Roman institution’s entrance hall into a landscape where architecture becomes an instrument for coexistence.
 
Presented as the second chapter of ENTRATE, the long-term program curated by Martina Muzi for MAXXI’s Architecture and Design Department, the installation acts like an environmental condition....

Ugoma Chinelo Ebilah is opening Mbari Kola, a public gallery and private members club that will host exhibitions, residencies and more

A DESIGN-LED REVOLUTION IN CELLULAR RECOVERY LED BY HPO.TECH
 
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a clinical process where individuals breathe pure oxygen in a pressurized environment to accelerate the body’s natural healing powers, treating everything from non-healing wounds to athletic exhaustion. Traditionally, this technology has been confined to the sterile, intimidating corridors of hospitals, housed within industrial steel tanks that often trigger anxiety and claustrophobia. 
  HPO.TECH is disrupting this narrative by reimagining the hyperbaric chamber not as a piece of medical machinery, but as a human-centered living capsule under a pressurized architectural environment. By merging...

Tito Gobbi's performance of Rigoletto's "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata" offers the most musically and dramatically complete portrait of Verdi's tortured court jester that I have ever heard.

You’ve heard of Chicken Little, but what about Chicken Linda? At her Upstate New York home, feminist performance artist Linda Mary Montano opened the door for writer Taliesin Thomas wearing a “devotional chicken costume” — words I never thought I’d see in that order. The rest of their conversation is just about as unexpected, zany, and charmingly bizarre as you’d expect. You simply must read it. A little ways south, Thomas J Price, Tavares Strachan, and a shortlist of other artists are in the running to design a Billie Holiday monument in Queens, and the Museum of the City of New York is getting a new center for activism. Never a predictable moment in the art world. —Lisa Yin Zhang, associate...

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Club Amis’ layered hospitality interiors revive Beirut residence
 
Club Amis by Rabih Geha Architects is located in the Gemmayzeh district of Beirut within a restored traditional Lebanese residential building. Developed for Pernod Ricard Middle East, the project combines hospitality, education, and event programming through a sequence of immersive interior environments organized around the themes of conviviality and spatial versatility.
 
The venue operates across multiple functions throughout the day. During daytime hours, the space hosts professional trainings, tastings, and masterclasses for bartenders, mixologists, and hospitality professionals. In the evening, the project transforms into a social...

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Now in its sixth year, the Listening Pitch – commissioned by Aesthetica Film Festival and Audible – continues to assert itself as a vital platform for ambitious, sound-led documentary work. What has become clear over time is that this is not simply a funding initiative, but a curatorial position: documentary understood through listening as method, where sound is not illustrative but generative, shaping how stories are formed, contested, and ultimately understood. In a contemporary nonfiction landscape defined by scale and saturation — where short documentary circulates widely across festivals, broadcasters, and platforms — the Listening Pitch offers a space where attention itself becomes the primary...

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In an age defined by the incessant circulation of images, photography has become less a discrete medium than an ambient condition. Pictures arrive and depart with such velocity that looking is often reduced to a kind of reflex – a flicker of attention rather than sustained encounter. The photograph, once anchored in the idea of duration, now behaves like a surface of perpetual present tense, endlessly refreshed and endlessly displaced. However, within this saturation, photography festivals have become increasingly important as counter-temporal spaces – environments in which images are slowed, recontextualised and recharged through proximity, scale and sequence. They function as temporary architectures of...

Ospitata negli spazi della Collezione Maramotti, “Cannon Fodder” segna la prima personale di Giuditta Branconi (classe 1998) in un’istituzione d’arte. La mostra si configura come un’esplicita e lucida dissertazione sul presente, inteso come un quotidiano opprimente in cui le dinamiche emotive e politiche si intrecciano in modo inestricabile. È lo stesso titolo, traducibile letteralmente come “carne da cannone”, a esplicitare la dichiarazione d’intenti dell’artista: un riferimento diretto e urticante a quei corpi sacrificabili, a quella materia biologica e sociale destinata a essere sistematicamente consumata da un macrosistema alienante. Da questa premessa si sviluppa una pittura che non è...

I visited Linda Mary Montano at her home in Saugerties, New York, on a snowy morning in late January. When I entered, I was transported into a living shrine, and the octogenarian artist gracefully hovered about as if she were the resident angel. After a warm welcome, she floated upstairs to put on her “Chicken Linda” outfit, which allowed me a moment to take in the scene. Montano views chickens as divine in disguise, and she gave herself the name “Chicken Linda” as a way to connect with the Holy Spirit. Filled with sacred altars, experimental sculptures, and religious iconography at every turn, Montano’s abode  — the same family home she grew up in — reflects her 60-year journey as a devoted...

On the heels of an uninspiring AI tribute to Leo Messi at Christie's last year, one of the greatest artworks about soccer — or football, as it should be called — ever created is coming to New York City this summer.Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's “Zidane, a 21st century portrait,” a 2006 film celebrating French soccer legend Zinédine Zidane, will be screened from June 11 to July 19 at the Guggenheim Museum, timed with the first and last whistles of the FIFA World Cup.The two-channel video piece has a deceptively simple premise: a 90-minute match between Real Madrid and Villarreal shot entirely from the perspective of Zidane, the attacking midfielder known for his sophisticated passes,...

This fall, the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) in East Harlem will open the Puffin Foundation Center for Social Activism, dedicated to civic engagement, social justice, and the city’s rich history as a hotbed of political organizing. The center will replace the museum’s Puffin Foundation Gallery for Social Activism, which opened in 2012 and is home to the permanent rotating exhibition Activist New York. The namesake Puffin Foundation, a nonprofit founded by Perry Rosenstein that awards grants to artists and art organizations to tell the stories of marginalized groups, is funding the renovation and expansion with an $8 million donation, the second-largest in the museum’s history. “We're...

The May 19 evening sales at top auction houses Sotheby’s and Phillips pulled in a combined $419.1 million, seeming to signal that the hitherto softening contemporary and modern art market is beginning to firm up again. Led by the record-breaking sale of a $48.4 million Matisse, the Sotheby’s evening sale took in $303.9 million, about […]

New York-based arts nonprofit A Blade of Grass (ABoG) has revealed the three members of the 2026 In Fellowship cohort. Established in 2025, the In Fellowship initiative annually provides three individuals or groups with $25,000 apiece in support of their respective socially engaged practices, as well as a $25,000 honorarium. The aim of the program […]

If you want to participate in Pat Perry’s new photo project, you’ll have to get comfortable heading outside, grabbing a few friends, and preparing to hunt low and high for obscure spots in your neighborhood. The Detroit-based artist recently launched “Liminal Bingo,” a communal photo hunt designed specifically “for people ages 5 to 105 living in boring places or exciting places.” Open to anyone with an internet connection, the project has a simple premise: grab a camera (phones are okay, although Perry encourages film if possible), and snap photos of his illustrated prompts. When you’ve collected five in a row, you’ve got a bingo! The instructions, though, are less straightforward than the...

On Wednesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation released its annual list of the most endangered historic sites in the United States. While some locations on the shortlist were included due to threats of redevelopment and environmental decay, others–including several commemorating sites of civil rights struggles–face political challenges from the Trump Administration. Earlier this year, […]

"Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė will make her company debut singing the role of Minnie in the new production of Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West, replacing Sondra Radvanovsky, who has withdrawn due to personal reasons."

“Paintings arrive at the studio in all states of disrepair,” shares art conservator Julian Baumgartner, who receives artworks in need of attention all the time. He adds, “It is, however, odd to have a painting arrive in a manner that can’t help but make one wonder just how bad it is.” An anonymous portrait was indeed folded inside a parcel that itself had been mangled enough in transit to make one think, Is this going to be salvageable? For the highly trained painting restorer, though, “Fortune favors the fold.” Baumgartner has seen his fair share of bad overpainting and, in this case, pretty substantial creases, tears, and worn-away paint. He runs Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, a...

Oceans cover nearly three-quarters of our planet, containing a staggering 96.5 percent of its water. And despite our ever-advancing technologies and cartographic tools, we’ve still only mapped about a tenth of the earth’s oceans. There’s so much we have yet to see or understand, but our reliance on things like fossil fuels and single-use plastics continue to have an indelible impact on the health of marine wildlife and habitats. Arch Enemy Arts’ forthcoming exhibition, Common Waters, brings these concerns to the fore. From the ethereal weirdness of jellyfish to the delicate branches of corals, the works not only touch on the incredible biodiversity below the surface, but also remind us of the ocean’s...

Few photographers have altered the trajectory of contemporary image-making as profoundly as Joel Meyerowitz. Born in New York in 1938, Meyerowitz emerged as one of the defining visual voices of post-war America, transforming colour photography from a medium associated with advertising and vernacular snapshots into a serious artistic language capable of emotional and philosophical depth. Across six decades, his work has reshaped the possibilities of street photography, landscape, portraiture, and visual narrative, always guided by an acute sensitivity to light, atmosphere, and human presence. Alongside contemporaries such as William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, Meyerowitz established colour photography as an...

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Intricate webs. Cloud cities. Hot air balloons. Tomás Saraceno (b. 1973) bridges art, architecture and science. The Argentinian-born, Berlin-based artist creates projects that connect across cultures and disciplines to deepen our attunement to other living beings. His research-based works respond to global questions posed by the Anthropocene, asking how we can live better – in particular, live better as a collective – in a world blighted by air pollution, increased carbon emissions and global warming. Saraceno brings his most ambitious show to date to Munich’s Haus der Kunst. Ancestral Futures, which opens in July, traces a unique journey through the artist’s practice, marking significant step forward...

Nato nel 1971 a Charleston, South Carolina, e attualmente di base a New York, Maxwell Stevens ha stabilito il disegno come pietra angolare della sua pratica, elevandolo a linguaggio visivo autonomo. In questa intervista, l’artista rivela la sua fascinazione per l’immediatezza e la materialità delle opere su carta, dove linea e superficie servono come veicoli dinamici per il pensiero e la riflessione emotiva. Esplorando la tensione tra figurazione e astrazione, Stevens ci invita a vedere il disegno come uno spazio intimo, “palinsestico” che, nella sua semplicità elementale, cattura la complessità frammentata della nostra esperienza contemporanea.
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Nestled amid plants native to the U.K., a giant figure of Gaia, or Mother Nature, sleeps in a verdant garden. With willow-branch locks shaped by artist Tom Hare and a crown of leaves, the figure’s face and shoulders are made from a fallen mature tree carved by Tim Wood. A winding pathway leads beneath an arch that extends the character’s torso, created in the tradition of dry stone walls and meticulously assembled by the family-run outfit Noble Stonework. You’ll find Gaia in a garden titled “On the Edge” at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which has taken the top prize of Garden of the Year. The project is a collaboration between designer Sarah Eberle and Campaign to Protect Rural England...

By Mary Singh Los Angeles has been in a prolonged conversation about monuments. Co-organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art and The Brick, and co-curated by Hamza Walker, Kara Walker, and Bennett Simpson, earlier this year, "MONUMENTS" brought ten decommissioned Confederate statues into the Geffen Contemporary's vast industrial space, placing them in direct dialogue with contemporary works by nineteen artists. Praised by the Los Angeles Times as "the most significant show in an American...

Alla Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, la prima personale istituzionale italiana di Lenz Geerk, Theatre of the Mind, si presenta come un dispositivo percettivo in cui la pittura regola le circostanze dell’apparizione. La mostra elabora un campo in cui sagoma, spazio e tempo non si danno simultaneamente, ma come scansioni differite, in cui la visione arriva sempre leggermente dopo il proprio accadere. Nei dipinti di Geerk non si dispiegano rappresentazioni semplici. Figure, oggetti e situazioni coesistono in configurazioni instabili e gli elementi non tendono a una sintesi, ma rimangono in uno stato di connessione irrisolta, in cui ciò che affiora non coincide mai davvero con ciò che si compie.
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Between the rhythms of global capital and the architectures of digital life, meaning today is produced in spaces where the physical and the virtual are no longer distinct but mutually constitutive. Labour, identity, memory and desire circulate through systems of automation, simulation and networked communication that reshape how experience is felt and represented. Within this condition, contemporary art becomes a site for testing the limits of perception itself – a way of registering how subjectivity is formed under technological pressure. It is here that the work of Cao Fei finds its urgency, staging a world in which utopia and exhaustion, play and infrastructure, coexist in uneasy proximity. Her practice...

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Si entra subito nel cuore del tema centrale osservando le immagini del fotografo colombiano Felipe Romero Beltrán: Bravo è il titolo del progetto che esplora il dramma dell’attraversamento del confine tra Messico e Stati Uniti, costituito dal fiume nel titolo, il Rio Bravo. Eppure, non vediamo figure umane nell’atto di passare il guado, ma soprattutto oggetti, sedie, materassi, pentolame, cortili senza persone, reliquie religiose, e luoghi che ci fanno capire che qualcuno da lì è passato. Come uno spettro. Fantasmi del quotidiano è il leitmotiv della XXI edizione del Festival della Fotografia Europea, realizzata con la curatela di Walter Guadagnini, Arianna Catania, Tim Clark e Luce Lebart.
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By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

C’è qualcosa di controcorrente, nel senso migliore del termine, in una manifestazione che occupa un intero weekend per parlare di terracotta. Eppure, Buongiorno Ceramica!, giunta alla sua dodicesima edizione il 23 e 24 maggio 2026, è una delle poche occasioni in cui il termine “diffuso” – spesso abusato dal lessico delle arti contemporanee – riacquista una misura concreta e verificabile. Sessanta comuni italiani, più di cinquecento eventi, due giorni: la ceramica esce dalle vetrine, scavalca i recinti delle fiere specializzate e torna a occupare la strada, i cortili, le botteghe aperte come fossero stanze di una casa provvisoriamente condivisa.
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By Lacey Argus It's easy to miss the bite-sized rainbows orbiting around the travertine surfaces of The Getty Center's Main Entrance. Some people breeze by them, eager to visit the various galleries that lie just beyond them. Others dash through them as they rush into a crowded bathroom line. Some briefly glance upward at the towering glass light prisms suspended from the atrium enclosing the space. But not children. If you spend an afternoon amongst these rainbows, you're sure to notice...

W hen we connect over Zoom, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, aka Shoplifter, is in Bentonville, Arkansas preparing to unveil Xanadu, a large-scale, outdoor installation at Format Festival. “It’s going to be like an alien forest that people at the festival roam around in and space out,” says Arnardóttir of the installation, consisting of ten poles ranging in […]
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What do you get when you combine an obsessive urge to create, sleep deprivation, climate change anxiety, and penchant for enchanted nature realms? Amy Casey shows us firsthand, through her infinitely detailed paintings of manmade structures, either clashing or peacefully coexisting with natural environments. In these pieces we might find repetitions of fungi, leaves, and […]
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