Christo (1935–2020) never treated space as neutral. Across a practice developed in tandem with Jeanne-Claude, he recast it as something provisional – something that could be tightened, sealed, withheld or briefly made strange. Born in Bulgaria and later based in Paris, his early years under political constraint shaped a lifelong interest in restriction as material condition. What might appear, at first glance, as acts of concealment were in fact acts of disclosure: buildings wrapped, coastlines interrupted, monuments turned temporarily unreadable. In each case, the familiar was not erased but delayed, forcing attention back onto the act of looking itself. The work did not sit in space so much as...

Era da tempo che l’inaugurazione della Biennale Arte non suscitava così tanto clamore. La 61. Esposizione Internazionale ha cominciato a far parlare di sé a partire dalle polemiche con cui è stata accolta la pubblicazione dell’elenco degli artisti invitati dalla curatrice Koyo Kouoh, scomparsa a maggio 2025, per la precisa ed escludente polarizzazione geografica di cui è espressione. Al dibattito sulla geopolitica artistica configurata dalla ricognizione, seppure non sappiamo fino a che punto compiuta, della potente critica d’arte camerunese naturalizzata svizzera si sono sovrapposte, nelle settimane precedenti l’apertura, ancora più infuocate diatribe in cui l’arte supposta essere al centro...

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I DIDNT REALISE YOU THOUGHT LIKE THAT, an online game released by Serpentine, begins with a door, a simple threshold that turns moral judgment into a playable act. Developed by artist and game designer Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, the interactive artwork invites players into a charged space of judgment, where every decision about who enters also reveals something about the person making it.
 
The premise carries a dystopian edge, but its force comes from something more intimate. This is a game about how we read one another, how quickly we decide what someone deserves, and how those decisions gather into social conditions. Brathwaite-Shirley uses the structure of play to make...

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While the public comments about the proposal were said to be 99.5% unfavourable, the commission signed off on the proposed arch with its golden statuary

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Artists iterating on a seemingly mundane object is one of our favorite exhibition concepts. Vintage envelopes, coasters, and matchboxes are just a fraction of the items galleries have offered as unique canvases for small works, and now, we can add nighlights to that list. On view through June 26, DUDD LITE is a collaboration between the design collective Dudd Haus and the gallery The Future Perfect. Curated through an open call that garnered nearly 400 submissions, the playful exhibition presents more than 130 artist-designed nightlights made from stained glass, wood, sea shells, ceramic, cotton, and more. The small works hover between sculpture and functional object, each reflecting a distinctive sensibility...

Pier Currà Architettura reinterprets a 1960s apartment
 
Located in the historic center of Forlì, Italy, 60s Style House reinterprets a 1960s apartment through a renovation that combines restored architectural features, bespoke furniture, and references to pop visual culture. Designed by Pier Currà Architettura for a young creative couple, the project transforms the existing flat into a sequence of spaces where color, geometry, and custom-designed elements become part of the architectural language. Rather than replacing the original character of the apartment, the intervention focused on preserving and enhancing its existing qualities. Original features, including the large window and the ceiling finished...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Larry Gagosian Gets the Documentary Treatment A new “unauthorized documentary” about the enigmatic dealer is in the works, as first reported by Page Six and confirmed by Hyperallergic directly with the film's creator, the Canadian director and veteran producer Barry Avrich of Melbar Entertainment Group. Avrich said the film will complete his trilogy about the art industry, following Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (2017) and Made You Look (2020). (He also wrote a book last year about the Knoedler Gallery fraud scandal.) Personally, I am both...

On February 7, the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, California, inaugurated a show I curated: Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026. The largest exhibition ever mounted by The Cheech, it includes some 150 works by 45 photographers based across the United States. The exhibition and accompanying publication also represent the first comprehensive survey of this history, one that spans six decades, beginning with a pioneering generation of photographers who chronicled the Chicano civil rights movement in the Southwest. These artists — including more recent figures like Laura Aguilar, Ken Gonzales-Day, and Christina Fernandez — have played significant roles in...

Architecture scholar Karrie Jacobs often wondered what it would be like to walk New York's shoreline. For the Nation, she investigates an initiative meant to encourage folks to do just that:Sadly, the come-one, come-all version of the 520-mile walk—a two-week extravaganza in which New Yorkers would have marched en masse along the water’s edge—never happened. Too bad. I suspect the project as originally conceived would have been a logistical nightmare, but also a phenomenon: a geekier, slower-moving answer to the New York City Marathon. And the press it surely would have generated could have drawn more attention to the 2021 Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, a document brimming with worthy ideas about...

CANNES, France — By his reckoning, Richard Avedon’s memoir was his work. Early in the new documentary Avedon, which recently premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the famed lensman says in an archival interview that he was “writing an autobiography with the faces of the people I photograph.” It would be fascinating to take this idea seriously and compare the ideas and emotions Avedon’s photos express with his circumstances and feelings when he took them. Instead, the film is a conventional tour of his life; the stories about his well-known pictures are related as straightforward behind-the-scenes peeks, interlaced with simple attestations from talking heads.“Convention” is the name of...

The Stonewall National Monument was named one of the most endangered places in the United States in an annual list put out by the National Trust for Historic Preservation ahead of the 250th anniversary of the nation's independence. The Greenwich Village site's inclusion on the list comes amid President Trump’s increasing efforts to control the narrative surrounding LGBTQ+ history. A complete list of sites on the 2026 list is included at the end of this article.Last February, the National Park Service (NPS) scrubbed all references to transgender individuals from the official website entry for the Christopher Park monument, which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. Earlier this year, the agency...

THE THEME OF this year’s Biennale of Sydney is “rememory.” The word is drawn from Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved, and was coined to define a memory that remains in the world, no matter how hidden or repressed. It has a physicality, according to Morrison—you can “bump into a rememory that belongs to someone else,” […]

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On Thursday, the luxury fashion house Chanel and Paris’s Centre Pompidou announced a five-year strategic partnership in support of the contemporary art museum’s significant phase of renovations, which is planned to culminate in 2030 with the reopening of the museum.  The new collaboration between Chanel and Centre Pompidou–the two organizations have previously partnered on initiatives […]

Paris’s Centre Pompidou has announced another five-year partnership, this time with the iconic fashion house Chanel. (Last week, the Pompidou and M+ in Hong Kong announced their plan to lend artworks and collaborate on research projects and exhibitions.) Despite being closed until 2030 while undergoing an over $500 million renovation, the Pompidou has kept busy with new collaborations and satellite museums, including those in Seoul, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, and Brussels. The Pompidou and Chanel began working together in 2019, and in 2024 the luxury brand sponsored the museum’s acquisition of a cache of 21 artworks by 15 contemporary Chinese artists, among them Alice Chen, Chen Wei, Cui Jie, Hu Xioyuan, and...

A sacred Buddhist hall on the top of Mount Misen in Japan was destroyed by fire—but an “eternal flame” said to have been burning for more than a millennium was rescued and moved to another site, where it continues to glow. As reported in the New York Times, Reikado Hall, in the south of Japan, “was reduced to a charred skeleton after a fire tore through the building, engulfing its wooden prayer rooms.” No one was injured, fortunately, and the flame that had been burning for some 1,200 years was salvaged and transferred to a less traumatized location. In a statement, the Daisho-in temple, which oversaw the damaged hall, said, “We have received many messages of sympathy. Thank you for your...

The City of Krakow on May 16 announced that its mayor, Aleksander Miszalski, had dismissed Adam Budak as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), igniting a strong response among the artistic community. The city cited “the finding of improper performance of duties related to work organization and team management” as among […]

Spain’s government is turning up the pressure on the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía over longstanding problems tied to its collection inventory, with lawmakers threatening consequences that could ultimately cost museum director Manuel Segade his job. A parliamentary oversight committee in Spain recently passed a resolution demanding that the museum complete a full and updated inventory of its holdings by December 31, 2026, according to Le Journal des Arts. The measure, backed by Spain’s conservative Popular Party and supported by the far-right, passed by a vote of 20 to 13, while the ruling Socialist Party abstained. In notably blunt language, lawmakers said that if the museum fails to...

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 […]

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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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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....

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.

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...

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...

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...

"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 continues 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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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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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...

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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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