JENNY HOLZER ILLUMINATES MUSÉE D’ORSAY WITH WORDS FROM THE PAST
 
The walls of Paris’ Musée d’Orsay have plenty to say, and Jenny Holzer is giving them a voice. For J’ai Vu (I Saw), opening October 20, 2026, the American artist transforms the former railway station into a vast canvas of illuminated words, moving texts, and engraved stone sculptures. Developed in collaboration with the museum, the exhibition draws on writings from the period represented in its collections, bringing together artistic correspondence, political commentary, and historical accounts. Rather than simply revisiting the 19th century, Holzer lets its voices confront the present, proving that some conversations are far from...

Ibrahim Mahama brings Ghanaian industrial histories to paris
  Ibrahim Mahama has spent years collecting, dismantling, and rebuilding things that could be considered beyond repair. Old trains, airplanes, factory structures, wooden stools, and industrial materials shape a practice that looks at what societies leave behind and what can be done with it. His work is rooted in northern Ghana, where the history of colonial exploitation continues to shape the region, but his questions reach far beyond it: who gets to shape the future, what do we do with the past, and how can art create something useful for the people around it? These questions come together in The Harvest Season, Mahama’s major exhibition at...

A commodity economist explains why the art market's plumbing, its financial apparatus and its blind spots all look familiar—and why it enables fraudsters like Inigo Philbrick

MODULAR LOGO SYSTEM UNIFIES MAXON’S CREATIVE SOFTWARE layout
 
Motion designer Casey Gu creates the Maxon One Brand Expression Film to introduce a unified visual identity across Maxon’s suite of creative tools. The project translates a modular logo system into motion, establishing a visual connection between products spanning 2D and 3D design, motion graphics, and visual effects. Rather than treating each product as an isolated identity, the film explores how distinct visual characteristics can coexist within a shared brand framework.
 
Led by Leo Hageman, Director of Brand & Creative, the new identity brings together Maxon One, Cinema 4D, Red Giant, ZBrush, Redshift, Universe, Capsules, Cinebench,...

rethinking the future of hospitality design
 
From November 17 to 19, 2026, IFEMA Madrid transforms into a hub of optimistic innovation as interihotel MAD26 returns for its sixteenth edition. Organized by the AMBIT Living Spaces Cluster, the event brings together around 350 exhibiting brands and over 200 international speakers. Under the theme of ‘Creative Rebellion,’ this year’s program directly challenges established hospitality conventions, using radical creativity and material experimentation to spark fresh paradigms for hotels and restaurants worldwide.
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the anatomy of a rebellion
 
Uniting craftsmanship...

Sometimes, the first time you hear an oeuvre, it becomes the definitive performance for you.

In Cannupa Hanska Luger’s latest show at Garth Greenan Gallery, an abstracted bison crafted of ironstone clay and sumi ink sits on a burned and blackened 19th-century American dining table; elsewhere, a stack of the animal’s skulls rests on a surface with vintage axes for table legs. Haunting Luger’s monochromatic sculptures, which Hyperallergic’s Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian calls his “strongest work yet,” is the slaughter of the buffalo by European settlers under the violent banner of Westward expansion. “The beauty of the forms seduces you into almost forgetting that destruction, but that visual history is embedded into each element,” writes Vartanian in his review today.Climate change?...

After 16 years of Fidesz rule, artists and cultural institutions assess the damage and consider what comes next

A painting rarely fails on the wall. It fails in the months after it comes off the wall, when it... Read More

Independent publishing returns to Césure for four days during Paris Art Week.

Paris Internationale returns with a new venue, 54 galleries and a tighter 12th edition.

Art, fashion, books, performance and design take over Dover Street Market Paris.

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN YIELDS Stratum PARAMETRIC TIMBER BENCH
 
STRATUM is a monumental parametric wooden bench designed and manufactured by Zorka Furniture for Haywood Mall in Greenville, South Carolina. Spanning nearly 29 feet and featuring over 600 individually CNC-cut components, this sculptural installation transforms traditional seating into an interactive architectural landmark, combining innovative design, precision craftsmanship, and functionality in a contemporary public space.
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600 CNC-CUT PLYWOOD COMPONENTS FORM MODULAR ASSEMBLY
 
The structure by design and manufacturing studio Zorka Furniture comprises over 600 individually CNC-cut wooden components milled from...

A £5m Brueghel, sold-out booths and record museum attendance at Frieze 2026.

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Molto spesso mi ritrovo a osservare come la luce incontra l’intonaco delle pareti delle chiese, come quel fascio di luce illumini quella piccola porzione di muro o come i mosaici nelle stesse brillino anche al buio, generando intorno a loro dei timidi luccichii. Di mani in quelle immagini se ne vedono molte: reggono doni, indicano visi impressi nella storia, seguono il tragitto delle stelle.
Evgeniya Pankratova, “Specie di spazi”, installation view at Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Milano, ph. Sarah Indriolo, courtesy the gallery and the artist
Nonostante non sostengano secoli di storia, le pareti della galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea riescono a riproporre proprio quel groviglio di...

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West home in Scottsdale, Arizona, is temporarily closing after a man died on the property on Friday during a walking tour, reported local news channel AZ Family. The individual was identified to be Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. According to the Scottsdale Fire Department, the incident took place at 2 p.m. local time, where Mateucci was struck by roofing material dislodged by strong winds while he was on a group walking tour. Mateucci died instantly and the death is being treated as a weather-related accident. At the time of the incident, local television channels had reported that it was a First Alert Weather Day, where...

Our critics assess Kansas's own Ben Bliss in a (nearly) all-American program performed at the Park Avenue Armory and Vocal Arts DC.

An elegant rendition, and an artistically true one.

Torino è una città molto vivace: ha gallerie di tendenza (come Franco Noero), vanta gallerie storiche (come Giorgio Persano), ha musei di tutto rispetto (come il GAM), vanta la sede della Fondazione Merz, accoglie la sede storica della Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo e ha una fiera di tendenza come Artissima.
Vista d’insieme degli spazi espositivi di The Others Art Fair 2025. Foto di Carolina Lemmi, courtesy The Others
A queste realtà, poco flessibili e molto impositive, si affiancano, in parallelo, molteplici iniziative che aumentano l’offerta e le opportunità di proporre delle opere al di fuori di una linea puramente egemonica. The Others Art Fair è una di queste realtà: un progetto...

The world's leading tenor garners a tepid response at Carnegie Hall's season opener featuring the Berliner Philharmoniker.

The open, skyward deliveries at the beginning and end of the aria as she addresses heaven! The mournful softness of her interceding "O mia Regina."

It’s a sunny October afternoon in Manhattan and the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are bustling with visitors. Tourists pose for selfies against the museum’s facade; street vendors sell chopped-up hotdogs in a nest of French fries; and the sound of saxophone music drowns into the symphony of splashing water fountains and honking cars on Fifth Avenue. So many types of people; the only ones missing are the Lenape whose land was stolen so we could enjoy this fine Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the steps of The Met. Inside the museum, a blockbuster exhibition about Abstract Expressionist painters Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock is jam-packed. The show is as much about their mutual influence as it is...

A fascination with Cool Britannia is evident at exhibitions, auctions and art fairs—though some question whether a revival of this era is possible or wise

Il calore di Charmaine Poh (Singapore, 1990) rispecchia il suo sentire e la sua propensione alla collettività. Espone, dopo la Biennale 2024, la sua prima mostra personale in Italia e porta il suo progetto per il premio “Artista dell’Anno” della Deutsche Bank 2025 inaugurato durante la Berlin Art Week lo scorso anno. Il MUDEC – Museo delle Culture apre la stagione artistica con il progetto di Charmaine Poh (a cura di Britta Färber e in collaborazione con 24 Ore Cultura), Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take, che si consolida nella scena istituzionale italiana. L’esposizione è un display della sua pratica multimediale che si divide tra video, installazioni e performance...

Dal 29 ottobre al 1° novembre 2026, a Torino, da Flashback Habitat (Ecosistema per le Culture Contemporanee, situato in corso Giovanni Lanza 75) si svolgerà la XIV edizione di Flashback Art Fair, il tutto sotto la cupola di un motto che per quest’anno è IN TIME, mentre la direzione di questa manifestazione è affidata a Ginevra Pucci e Stefania Poddighe. All’interno di questo registro, privo di veri confini e di limiti, se non quelli segnati dalla qualità, e dove antico, moderno e contemporaneo smettono di essere categorie separate per diventare parti di un’unica esperienza visiva, si potrà incontrare un disegno di Klimt e una tela seicentesca di Andrea Vaccaro, un’opera di Sandro Chia accanto a...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! The Norton Simon Museum countersued the Jewish Federation Los Angeles, following the latter’s suit claiming it owned a Nazi-looted Lucas Cranach diptych in the museum collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has selected artist Danh Võ for its 2027 Genesis Façade Commission. The Biennale Jogja Foundation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, has announced it is closing its operations after 16 years, due to political and economic turmoil. The Headlines CRANACH CONFUSION. The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, countersued the Jewish Federation Los Angeles on Wednesday, following the...

Students say they are not receiving marks or feedback, as dispute over the institution's restructuring programme has dragged on for 130 days

The area, called Noma, will be near the site of the first Frieze Abu Dhabi, which launches next month in the Saadiyat Cultural District

Rubaiaya Qatar, a new quadrennial that will open its inaugural edition at various venues across Doha beginning November 21, has announced more than 120 artists that will participate in the new initiative, presented by Qatar Museums in collaboration with ALRIWAQ Arts + Architecture. Unlike most other recurring art exhibitions, Rubaiaya Qatar will be made up of three separate shows at three different institutions and will also include a public art component. “The inauguration of Rubaiya Qatar marks a defining moment in this change, with Doha as the stage on which contemporary art from our region and beyond is presented to the world,” Sheikha Alanood Al Thani, the quadrennial’s director, said in a...

Two years ago, I encountered the infamous 1892 image of two men with a hill of buffalo skulls at the Baltimore Museum of Art. It was covered by a small wall-mounted curtain designed by Yurok artist Stormi Turner, and it gave the image, still shocking after over a century of circulation, the depth of tragedy that it warranted. Part of the Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum exhibition, it was a way of acknowledging the care that such a crime demands, in the same way that human remains are shown in museums today, often with warnings, behind doors you must open, or under covers that you must actively remove to see. Turner’s intervention was a way to honor an animal that many Native American groups and...

Artavazd Pelechian said his piece, and his admirers have waited decades for the world to take notice. The Armenian filmmaker, active primarily during the Soviet era, has a concise oeuvre: 13 works, mostly shorts, with two features that barely crack an hour. Aside from 2019’s Nature, he has not released anything since 1994. International recognition came gradually, but it has grown enough that many of his films have received 4K restorations that premiered at different festivals over 2026. Recently, the Pelechian Project was showcased at the New York Film Festival (NYFF), with eight of the director’s restored works in the program.At the storied All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow in the...

Two life-changing experiences lie at the heart of the captivating new oil-and-graphite paintings in Tanya Merrill’s exhibition, Land animal, house animal: The artist gave birth to her daughter in June, and her family recently relocated from New York City to upstate New York. In her new environment, Merrill decisively challenges a pervasive anthropocentric worldview that deems humans superior and animals lesser. She foregrounds local animals as sentient beings with their own motivations and desires, including a cat in two terrific paintings, a wide-eyed and inquisitive dairy cow, and the Northern harrier (or marsh hawk) with piercing eyes and luscious gray, white, and black feathers that she frequently...

Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History could join the Smithsonian museum network. The museum was founded in 1976 and is currently a Smithsonian affiliate. As an affiliate, it can borrow from the Smithsonian’s collections and draw on its resources. The museum regularly programs exhibitions, as well as housing a core collection covering Jewish […]

On September 29, ARTnews celebrated the launch of the 37th edition of our annual Top 200 Collectors list at Summit New York 1 Vanderbilt, which featured impressive views of the New York skyline from the Chrysler Building to the JPMorgan Chase Tower to the Empire State Building. The evening’s cohosts were Estrellita Brodsky, chair of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and cofounder of Another Space in Chelsea, and Becky Gochman, cofounder of the Gochman Family Collection, which will open Branchline, an exhibition space in Katonah, New York, next month. During remarks, Gochman spoke about the central role artists play in the art world. “I would like to make a statement here tonight that we wouldn’t...

In a suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California, is arguing that it is the proper owner of 16th-century diptych that was looted by the Nazis and later sold to its founder. The heirs have been fighting for the artwork for decades, though the family chose after World War II not to sue for its return. The museum opposes an attempt by the Jewish Federation-Council of Greater Los Angeles and its board chair Daniel Gryczman, who sued in September for the return of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 16th-century diptych painting Adam and Eve. Marei von Saher, heir to the Dutch dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who owned the piece before the war, has sued...

FLORENCE, ITALY—A bronze statue of an Etruscan man wearing a toga found in 1567 may have been deliberately turned black some 2,200 years ago, according to the Greek Reporter. Historical accounts of the discovery indicate that the sculpture was green when it was unearthed. It had been previously thought that the statue, known as the Arringatore (“Orator”) of Pila, turned black over time through a natural corrosion process. Conservators, including Salvatore Siano of the Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” and Sonia Mugnaini of the University of Siena, removed brown coatings on the statue, and found smooth, nearly black areas on the sculpture’s face, hair, clothing, and arm. The researchers...

GHARBIA GOVERNARATE, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, fragments of two colossal statues have been discovered in Egypt’s Nile Delta. One statue has been identified as Ramesses II, and the second is also thought to represent the pharaoh, who ruled from about 1279 to 1213 B.C. Archaeologists from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) uncovered the statues after they were called to the site by a local villager who found an inscribed granite block on his property. Hisham El-Leithy of the SCA said that the first statue fragment is a five-foot-long head depicting Ramesses II wearing a double crown, symbolizing the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. A piece of the statue’s back pillar is...

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA—According to a statement released by Flinders University, underwater archaeologists working with the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation rangers and divers have identified sites off the northwestern coast of Australia where First Peoples lived more than 9,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and reshaped the coastline. The submerged area covers some 772,000 square miles. One of the identified sites includes a freshwater spring and stone tools, which were made using material obtained from an island about 14 miles away. Another site featured a rocky hill overlooking a river channel. “The Ngarda-Ngarli people have cared for Murujuga for at least 50,000 years,” said Vincent Adams, director of...

Moscow’s GES-2 House of Culture has named Italian curator Francesco Bonami as its new artistic director. The institution opened in 2021 before halting programming in 2022 at the start of the Russia-Ukraine War, and is funded by billionaire Leonid Mikhelson’s V-A-C Foundation. Bonami began his career as an artist, and worked as an editor at […]

The creation of a Centre Pompidou in Foz do Iguaçu, a city in the Brazilian state of Paraná, was initially slated to open in November 2027, then rescheduled for 2028. Now, the project has been pushed back again, until 2029. The new museum will be designed by Paraguayan architect Solano Benítez, but the bidding process […]

French billionaire and collector François Pinault told Le Monde that he intends to put 106 works from his personal art collection on permanent display at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, one of three venues where Pinault stages programs of temporary exhibitions. The permanent show is set to open March 2027. “For 20 years, we opted […]

The organizers of Art Week NYC today announced the thirty-two cultural institutions and nonprofit organizations participating in the event’s inaugural edition, to take place November 11–14 across the city. Designed around New York’s gallery neighborhoods, Art Week NYC aims to celebrate the city’s one-of-a-kind art ecosystem by bringing together museums, cultural institutions, galleries, artists, collectors, […]

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Prima del turista viene l’immagine del turista. Prima ancora di arrivare davanti a una rovina, a un tramonto sul Mediterraneo o a una piazza italiana, il visitatore possiede già un repertorio di ciò che dovrebbe vedere. È dentro questa distanza fra esperienza e rappresentazione che si colloca A sunset, a ruin, a crowd and a battle, la mostra di Cecily Brown da Thomas Dane Gallery a Napoli: circa trenta dipinti e disegni in cui l’estate mediterranea diventa materia di una contesa visiva, storica e percettiva. Brown concentra la propria ricerca sul momento in cui un luogo cessa di essere soltanto un luogo e acquista la forma di un’immagine desiderata.
Cecily Brown, “A sunset, a ruin, a crowd and a...

Ribs (top) and scapula (above) of Shanidar A CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Haaretz reports that Emma Pomeroy of the University of Cambridge and her colleagues examined the remains of Shanidar A, a Neanderthal of about 45 years of age who was buried in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Shanidar Cave some 75,000 years ago. The researchers suggest that the individual had been killed when a weapon, likely a sharpened stick, was forced into his chest from the front, passed through a lung, and punched a hole in his left shoulder blade. Similar holes have been identified in fossilized animal bones. About a year before his death, this individual had also suffered facial injuries, including a shattered front tooth. An earlier study...

Coin TROY, OHIO—More than 18,000 artifacts were recovered during a rescue excavation conducted at a 200-year-old tavern site in western Ohio, according to a WYSO Public Radio report. The Overfield Tavern was constructed in 1808 by Benjamin and Margaret Overfield. “It was where the community gathered to celebrate, to share information, and to spend time together,” said Chris Manning of the Troy Historical Society. The building would have also housed local militia meetings and auctions, in addition to serving as the post office and the courthouse until official buildings were constructed. The building became a museum in the late 1940s, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The...

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Yue Zhang
I’m an illustrator/ graphic designer currently based in Beijing. Through illustration, I make connections to everyday life, seeking out beauty in the midst of chaos. My work gives visual form to inner feelings and experiences. I see each creative process as an adventure, specializing in the translation of text into vibrant visual narratives.
This zine《Let’s go to the park》 is an experimental work on visual language, creating narrative solely through visual imagery. It came from some moments when I was just zoning out in the park: from the amusing interactions between a dog and its owner, the swirling ripples in the fountain, the sudden downpour of rain… I blended these unrelated moments...

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By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...

 
When we say ‘think of the colour yellow’, what comes up for you? Our latest photobook, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: YELLOW, is bursting with inspiration, from delicate blossoms and ripe lemons to eye-catching clothing and sunny décor.
Across 100 photos, our photographers celebrate all things yellow: some chanced upon in the street or in nature, others meticulously planned. Of course, there are loads of different hues that count as yellow, from acidic brights to mustard, egg yolk, and canary. You’ll find them all in the book!
The cover image, by Jo Martindale, submerges us in a ball pit of yellow plastic balls: it’s immersive, fun, and hard to look away. The yellow we find around us definitely has multiple...

By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...

To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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