The show at Palazzo Strozzi—a collaboration with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC—focuses on damaged works spanning 4,500 years

Frieze owner and Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel is not convinced that Israel's violence against Palestinians meets the definition of genocide. He also didn't appreciate rapper Macklemore's comments on the matter during a recent Ed Sheeran concert. The United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and the Israeli nonprofit B'Tselem are among many organizations that beg to differ with Emanuel. Read more below.Also today: a look back on five-plus decades of Willie Birch's art, the Met Museum announces a major Félix González-Torres survey, and the overlooked artisans who built...

The Morbid Anatomy Library has acquired dozens of unique pieces from the recently shuttered Leila’s Hair Museum in Missouri

MPNYC transforms Piraeus warehouse through adaptive reuse
 
Manhattan Projects New York City (MPNYC) transforms a former storage and workshop building on Polydefkous Street in Piraeus, Greece, into a combined office, showroom, and gallery. Located diagonally opposite Castor Place, another project by the firm, the new space opens in October 2026 with a photography exhibition.
 
MPNYC treats the existing structure as a found object, using subtraction to recover its earlier character. The building has accumulated several distinct lives since it was originally constructed. It first operated as a storage facility serving the port, before being divided into smaller units for different types of cargo. Repair...

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Decommissioned road signs turn into physical pixels for land art
 
Urban Pixel is an ongoing land art project by Italian contemporary artist Maurizio Sergiusti, known as Scoobafish, in which authentic decommissioned road signs are transformed into physical pixels for monumental temporary installations. Chapter I, The Last Wave, reinterprets Hokusai’s Great Wave directly within the Sardinian landscape.
 
Nearly 1,000 recovered road signs will be assembled by hand on a beach to form the image when viewed from above. The signs are not painted, cut, or materially altered. Their original colors, reflective surfaces, scratches, rust, and traces of use remain visible. Objects once designed to regulate movement,...

The Vancouver-based painter and photoconceptualist will receive $71,000

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Vojtěch Kovařík non cerca di attualizzare il mito: ne trasforma la funzione. È questa la tensione di In Between, da Mendes Wood DM, New York: far sopravvivere forme nate per rappresentare autorità, potere e permanenza dopo che quella funzione si è incrinata. Kovařík converte il mito attraverso il proprio registro, conservando la gravità delle forme monumentali mentre ne altera il significato.
Vojtěch Kovařík, “Between Two Worlds”, 2026, acrylic and sand on canvas, 144 x 244 x 6 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York
Frontalità arcaica, corpi idealizzati della statuaria greca, monumenti dell’Europa orientale, Realismo socialista, Picasso e Léger...

Laguna, who only started painting after retiring from her teaching career, started to achieve success when she was in her 60s

Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota and Mami Kataoka, the director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, have been appointed to l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the government of France. Shiota was awarded the rank of Officier, while Kataoka was given that of Chevalier. The pair were honored at […]

Two German artists were arrested at the Louvre in Paris on September 19 after mounting two canvases to a wall of the Salle des États, where Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is displayed. Police reported that the pair used sticky tape to affix the works, each of which measured roughly twelve by nine inches. One […]

The restoration of Rivera’s work launches a multi-year initiative to preserve public art on the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México campus

After years of testing the waters, Christie’s has decided that pop culture is ready for the big leagues. The auction house confirmed Wednesday that it is launching a dedicated pop culture division, a new global operation that will hold multiple auctions each year spanning film and television, music and musical instruments, sports memorabilia, science and technology, natural history, fashion, and popular design. Josh Benesh, a former Heritage Auctions executive who joined Christie’s as a consultant earlier this year, has been appointed to lead the division as its global head based in New York. The move comes after Christie’s spent years assessing the appetite for the category, most recently with the...

envisioned colors on display
 
At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, violinist Audrey Wright wears a field of electronics across her body while her husband and creative partner Geoff Robertson stands nearby with a tablet. As Wright plays, Robertson moves through visual programs that send light across the wearable display.
 
The setup comes from Luminous Being, the project the pair began performing in 2024, but the presentation soon shifts toward something still being built. Together with composer Stephanie Ann Boyd, they are developing PRISMBODY, a new work that takes Boyd’s synesthetic experience of music as its starting point and asks how some part of that personal perception might become visible to...

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Platform)" (1991) (photo Adam Milner/Hyperallergic)The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the first major exhibition on Felix Gonzalez-Torres in New York in over 30 years. Opening next June, The Spaces Between is organized in conjunction with the Art Institute of Chicago, which will simultaneously host a different exhibition on the Cuban-born American artist who died from AIDS-related complications in 1996.Titled after a line from an Elizabeth Bishop essay that Gonzalez-Torres had faxed to gallerist Andrea Rosen in 1994, The Spaces Between will bring together more than 40 works spanning installation, sculpture, photography, painting, and video. Dispersed...

The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) has announced that Mexican architect Frida Escobedo will lead the project to expand the museum. The subterranean expansion will be constructed beneath Plaza Perú, the public park that neighbors the museum, and will roughly double the museum’s current exhibition space. New features include temporary galleries, an […]

Paul Laporte, a great-grandson of the well-to-do Sofie Heilbronner, who fled Munich for the United States in 1938, spent the past eight years working to reclaim a painting that belonged to his great-grandmother and had been lost as a result of Nazi persecution. The artwork, Music (Arcadian Scene), 1892, by German painter Albert Lang was returned to Heilbronner’s heirs in a ceremony on September 22 at the German Embassy in Washington, DC. Before Tuesday, it had been held by the Bavarian State Painting Collections, a museum in Munich. A notice from the New York State Department of Financial Services, which administers the Holocaust Claims Processing Office, explains that Heilbronner packed up her artworks...

When Mikiko Ino, president and director of the New York nonprofit KinoSaito, lost her husband, the late abstract painter and the organization’s co-founder Kikuo Saito, she turned to the words he had often repeated.“Kikuo always said there are two deaths: the first is physical, and the second is when nobody talks about you,” Ino recalled. “I decided to never give him the second death.”Ino’s story is one of many heartfelt, candid testimonies in a new report published by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, “Creating Future Memory,” which zeroes in on the obstacles, educational gaps, and structural inequities that dictate who gets to be remembered and how. A total of 145 artists, family members,...

Hollywood mogul and Frieze owner Ari Emanuel objected to calling the actions of the Israeli military in the Occupied West Bank a genocide, criticized rapper Macklemore's pro-Palestinian remarks, and complimented Elon Musk for doing "incredible things for the human race" during an interview on the Daily Show on Monday, September 21. The comments come days before the September 24 opening of New York’s Armory Show, which Frieze owns and effectively operates alongside six other fairs, two exhibition spaces, and its namesake publication. "I don't believe the word genocide is the proper word for what happened in the West Bank," Emanuel told host Jon Stewart without once making mention of Gaza, which a...

The U.K. government has placed a ban on the export of an early-sixteenth-century bronze, valued at $6.2 million, in an effort to give British museums and galleries time to acquire the work and keep it on public display. Seated Nymph was sculpted by the Italian artist Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, also known as Antico, in […]

Seven frog amulets (1410–1310 BCE), faience and gold (image used with permission from the Oriental Museum, Durham University)Most literature about Ancient Egypt, and popular culture for that matter, has favored a glamorous depiction of its treasures and dynastic political power struggles. The artisans and laborers who built the material and visual culture of one of the longest surviving ancient civilizations, however, are often either absent or relegated to the margins.Made in Ancient Egypt (2025), a fully illustrated catalog for an exhibition of the same name at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, fills this gap by scientifically reanalyzing existing and lesser-known objects and works of...

Jeffreen M.H. Ash will depart from her role as executive director of the Chicago cultural nonprofit Threewalls on September 30. She has spent eleven years at the contemporary art organization, whose mission is to support Black artists through collaboration and community and within Black feminist and diasporic traditions. “It has been a privilege to create […]

New York’s El Museo del Barrio said this week that it regretted renting space to a group that organized an event at which 9/11 conspiracy theories were freely aired. Titled “Turning the Tide: 9/11 25 Years Later” and staged between September 10 and 13, the four-day event was held at the museum earlier this month to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. It was organized by the International Center for 9/11 Justice, whose stated goal is to create “a society that is no longer shaped by the false official account of 9/11.” According to the New York Times, the event pushed false narratives about 9/11, including ones that were centered around the notion that the Twin Towers...

In tender paper collages featuring woodland creatures in relief, Kanako Abe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales. Giant wolves, diminutive bunnies, and curious deer wander through a Narnia-like realm that we glimpse through foliage-filled portals. In her practice, “the paper becomes a canvas for stories untold, where every cut is a deliberate step into a world where imagination and reality intertwine,” a statement says. Paper-cutting has long been a central tenet of Abe’s practice, which she recently applied to an ambitious forthcoming book project in collaboration with young adult novelist Caryl Lewis. The Paper Girl, published by Frances Lincoln Ltd., follows the...

A trove of 934 Roman silver denarii was discovered by an amateur archaeologist with a metal detector in a field in Wesseling, Germany. The coins date to the time of the Roman emperor Hadrian. When his metal detector wouldn’t stop beeping last year, Oliver Riedl called authorities and a group of experts began digging immediately to discover the biggest collection of coins from this time period in the country, per the local archaeology office. The 6.8 pounds of silver was likely buried deliberately in the second half of the second century CE, according to the LVR Office for the Preservation of Archaeological Monuments in the Rhineland. “Of course, we can only speculate about the motives, but it’s very...

Painter Alexander Koch wins £6,000 towards an artist’s studio as the ACS Studio Prize celebrates its tenth edition.

Amar Kanwar brings three immersive films to Serpentine North, including the world premiere of The Charcoal Man.

the kitchen moves outside
 
Lume Traveler has taken one of the bulkiest parts of a caravan interior and pushed it outside. Its new Ranger places the kitchen in a pull-out module along the body, turning food prep into an outdoor act and giving the compact cabin more room to breathe. The aluminum trailer measures 5.19 meters long including its drawbar and just over two meters wide, with an empty weight of 1,150 kilograms.
 
That move sets up the whole plan. A fixed Auping queen bed fills the rear, while an enclosed bathroom and a small seating area fit into the remaining interior. Designed for two people, the Ranger also gains a pop-up roof that lifts once parked, opening up the low-profile cabin...

Artists worldwide can enter the National Portrait Gallery’s 2027 Portrait Award for a chance to win £35,000.

A CLUB WHERE EVERYONE HAS A PART TO PLAY
 
Diesel’s Spring/Summer 2027 runway show began in a purpose-built club, but the clothes were only part of what guests had come to see. Conceived by Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck, the space placed the audience inside a performance that could break out anywhere. There was no safe distance from the action, even for those who thought they had come to sit and watch.
 
As the models appeared, interventions directed by Marseille collective (LA)HORDE unfolded among the crowd. Some 200 performers were embedded with the guests, interacting with one another and drawing unsuspecting spectators into scenes that shifted from strange and unsettling to openly sensual. At times, it...

The Art Institute of Chicago will return Jean Metzinger’s painting Woman with a Fan (1913) to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein, the museum has announced. The museum bought the painting from New York’s Sidney Janis Gallery in 1959, but despite research into its provenance, gaps remained, including its location before and during World War II. Working with the Mondex Corporation, which specializes in the recovery of art and other assets looted during World War II, the museum discovered that the painting was part of the Lewenstein collection, which was sold under duress in Amsterdam after the German invasion of the Netherlands. The museum’s website describes the painting as “most...

Grzegorz Stefanski brings monumental images of sleeping men to Times Square during New York's Armory Week.

“Do you ever think about concrete?” opens the trailer for The History of Concrete, a documentary released in select theaters in the U.S. last Friday. If your answer is no, the quirky new feature by filmmaker John Wilson may mean you can’t get it out of your head. Wilson is known for the cult-favorite, comedic HBO docuseries How To with John Wilson, which he described as being “kind of like that show Planet Earth, except if it was only in New York and David Attenborough was forced to film everything himself.” His movie debut is primed for absurdity, delving into something that’s immanently mundane yet fundamental to the way we live. The film captures concrete’s ubiquity in urban sidewalks,...

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A new Macbeth summons the forces of hell — and the star power of Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen — for a fiery start to the Met's new season.

Eichenholz is much too rare on stage these days.

Paul Carey-Kent picks Colin Self’s witty, sprawling 365-part new work at Frith Street Gallery.

Per il titolo della sua quarta personale alla Galleria Studio G7 di Bologna, Gregorio Botta (Napoli, 1953) ha scelto un verso di Emily Dickinson incentrato sul paradosso della conoscenza e della coscienza umana: la percezione di un oggetto costa esattamente la sua perdita[1]. Ovvero: nel momento in cui percepiamo o comprendiamo un oggetto (o una realtà), ne consumiamo o perdiamo la presenza fisica e immediata, trasformandolo in un’immagine mentale, mentre l’assenza e il desiderio, implicanti una distanza incolmabile tra noi e il mondo, sono le lenti più potenti attraverso cui guardarlo. La frase introduce un aspetto fondamentale nel lavoro di Botta, che da oltre trent’anni si sviluppa attorno alla...

In the winning video of Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition, Dr. Ning Xu captures the abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD)—a genetic disorder affecting respiratory function. “When people watch cilia beating, they immediately understand that something beautiful and important is happening inside us,” says the Beijing-based researcher. “I think this competition turns microscopy into a shared language.” The marvelous sight is just one of the notable videos from the annual competition, which just celebrated its 16th cycle. This year’s panel welcomed esteemed scientists, researchers, and science communicators who evaluated more than 340 video entries...

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The 80th Issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon! It includes a cover a feature on the paper collages of Lola Dupre, the Fluffy Vases of Shishi San, the installation paintings of Evgenia Voinar, Debbie Lawson’s textile sculptures, painter Rob Browning’s stark surrealism.  Plus a Special Insert Section focused on the art of Jeff Sheridan, Andrea […]
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Vibrant, amorphous shapes intersect with squiggles and occasional geometric lettering in the murals of Chicago-based artist Emmy Star Brown. She describes her studio practice as a space where her inner child emerges, paring down her expressions to formal qualities of line, shape, and contrast. In her large-scale installations on urban buildings, which draw on her background in visual communications and advertising, both interior and exterior surfaces transform into energetic, edge-to-edge romps of color. Brown’s work is currently on view alongside that of Danym Kwon in The Peace of Wild Things at Joy Machine. See more on the artist’s Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a...

It’s all things avian at Bird Photographer of the Year, the world’s largest contest dedicated to images of feathered creatures planet-wide. This year, the program welcomed more than 24,000 entries from photographers around the globe, capturing diving penguins, urban denizens, mating rituals, dramatic flights, and more. Highlighting birds of all kinds, the competition emphasizes the diverse appearances and behaviors of the animals and also raises awareness of the challenges they face due human-triggered habitat loss, poaching, pollution, and other factors. Categories include Best Portrait, Bird Behavior, Conservation, Urban Birds, and others, plus three youth categories for budding photographers aged 17...

Tamara Wilson completes her first Ring Cycle as Brünnhilde next month, and Parterre Box celebrates with a clip of her in Siegfried.

Haley Whitney shines as the mother of us all in The Marigny Opera Ballet's stirring staging of Scarlatti's Cain.

Nella pratica di Katya Shkolnik (1972, Mosca, URSS; vive e lavora a Milano) la macchina fotografica è un apparato che isola una variabile (una posa, un orizzonte, un volto) e la tiene sotto osservazione finché non cede qualcosa. E se il procedimento è affine a un protocollo di laboratorio, la ragione sta nella laurea in ingegneria nucleare al MEPhI di Mosca e negli studi all’Accademia Diplomatica che hanno improntato la forma mentale dell’artista.
Katya Shkolnik, Portrait, 2026, courtesy of the artist
La variabile, nella maggior parte dei lavori, è quasi sempre il tempo, perché è l’unica grandezza che la fotografia maneggia di continuo senza mai mostrarla. Ogni scatto è una decisione sulla durata...

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The mezzo international anthem is so oversung that we forget how hard it is to sing.

L’orizzonte del paesaggio siciliano, spesso ridotto a mera cartolina visiva, a stereotipo turistico o a sfondo immutabile per una narrazione oleografica, trova nell’arte contemporanea uno spazio di indagine radicale, capace di svelarne le faglie nascoste, le ferite ecologiche e le profonde stratificazioni mitologiche. È questa la direzione intrapresa dal progetto espositivo che vede protagonista Stefania Galegati all’interno della suggestiva cornice dell’Ecomuseo Urbano Mare Memoria Viva di Palermo, un appuntamento culturale di primo piano che volge verso le sue ultime settimane di apertura. Iniziativa vincitrice dell’Italian Council (13esima edizione, 2024), la mostra si sviluppa come un’opera...

By Lacey Argus Sovern, a nonprofit art gallery and healing justice center in Los Angeles, sticks out like a vibrant castle in the midst of the harsh greys of urban Los Angeles. The bright shades of pink and elaborate designs that adorn its concrete walls draw you in, as if calling you to explore the treasures within. The gallery's current showing is Into the Pluriverse, running from June 25 through October 8, 2026. Into the Pluriverse is a group exhibition inspired by the Zapatista term...

Al confine fra sogno e realtà, Francesco Dabbicco costruisce la propria ricerca pittorica come un territorio di attraversamento tra memoria luminosa, immaginazione infantile e responsabilità civile. Nelle sue opere, l’eredità cromatica e atmosferica di Sorolla sembra incontrare una dimensione ludica e primaria dello sguardo: quella capacità, quasi pascoliana, di ritrovare nel mondo il “fanciullino” capace di stupire, far gioire e rivelare la propria innocenza. Il suo lavoro non si esaurisce, però, nella superficie dell’immagine: Dabbicco guarda al contesto urbano e comunitario come a un campo vivo di relazione. A Triggiano (Bari), il paese in cui vive, la sua pratica si intreccia con i temi della...

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Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...

For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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