CHICAGO — More than 10 million people in the United States have called public housing home over the past century, yet the country boasts only one museum dedicated to the subject. The National Public Housing Museum (NPHM), after nearly two decades as a roving entity, opened a permanent home in Chicago in early 2025. It seeks to address one of the most intersectional of histories, connecting art, design, architecture, human rights, politics, social policy, the economy, systemic racism, immigration trends, policing practices, and more.The museum occupies the sole remaining section of the Jane Addams Homes, constructed in 1938 on the southwest side of Chicago. It’s currently surrounded by an empty lot nearly...

anonym studio redesigns Bhoon+ House in Bangkok
 
Designed by anonym studio, Bhoon+ House occupies a 376-sqm plot that originally formed the lawn of an existing family residence in Bangkok, Thailand. The site was redeveloped to accommodate a new household while maintaining a close relationship with the original home. The former lawn was retained as a shared courtyard, allowing the two residences to remain visually and spatially connected while establishing greater privacy for the younger family.
 
The design is organized around an open central courtyard that responds to both the existing house and the orientation of the site. Because the street frontage faces east, carving the courtyard into the middle of...

While exploring the warm waters of the Sicilian coast last week, two Italian divers discovered hundreds of clay vessels piled atop an approximately 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck. In an Instagram post chronicling the discovery, Giacomo De Mola recalled finding the site with his diving partner, Igor Bisulli, after mistaking the wreck for a "big rock." Sicilian cultural authorities clarified in a statement that the ship resides at a depth of 46 meters (151 feet) and primarily carries Dressel 1A amphorae (named after the German archaeologist Heinrich Dressel), late Roman Republic ceramic wine jars characterized by their angularity, pointed base, and collared rim. The divers also unearthed two anchor stumps and an...

One of the longest-running musical performances in history witnessed its first chord change in over two years on August 5. The 639-year-long performance, which is taking place at the St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt Germany, features John Cage’s composition “Organ² / ASLSP – As Slow as Possible” played on a wood-framed organ.  The piece, an […]

Every book is a record of the life of the people who thumbed through it, the binder who secured its pages in place, the designers who chose its cover and typeset. So, when news emerged that Anthropic scanned and destroyed out-of-print titles to train Claude, it felt like a gut-punch to the very spirit of storytelling and artmaking that has always sustained our humanity.This week, author Ed Simon articulates the fascist logic behind this destruction, and reminds us why we must keep reading, writing, and critiquing in the face of it. Writer Natasha Seaman, for one, had mixed feelings about a new book on Vermeer, who has amassed a devoted following in part because his personal history still largely remains a...

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is scheduled to open to the public on September 22nd, but the Los Angeles institution’s planned multi-tiered membership models have drawn criticism already. Jori Finkel, a critic and journalist, wrote in The Art Newspaper of the “tone-deaf” proposed admission pricing, which ranges from $25 single-admission tickets for adults to […]

A new mock ad by the activism group Everyone Hates Elon depicts the increasingly controversial Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses on a New York State sex offender registry intake photo of Jeffrey Epstein, overlaid with the statement, “Glasses for people who don't do consent.”The guerrilla ad was featured on a sandwich board planted outside Ray-Ban's flagship store in London this weekend. “Just helping @rayban @meta sell their pervert glasses by making sure everyone sees their new ad :)” EHE wrote in an Instagram post.

Divers with a specialized unit of the Carabinieri, Italy’s military police, have uncovered a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Sicily. In a Facebook post on August 7, Alessandro Giuli, Italy’s culture minister, said that this is “one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries in recent years.” According to the BBC, local fishermen alerted the Carabinieri to the shipwreck, which was full of hundreds of ancient Roman vessels called amphorae. The boat itself is nearly 70 feet long and 20 feet wide, and was discovered at a depth of 150 feet. Italian spearfisherman and freediver Giacomo De Mola posted a video on Instagram on August 8 describing...

An IndyCar race taking place in the nation’s capital later this month as part of President Trump's “Freedom 250” celebrations is under scrutiny as experts study the possible impact of race car vibrations on thousands of artworks held in museum collections near the track.The National Gallery of Art (NGA), one of several institutions located on the 1.7-mile Freedom 250 Grand Prix circuit — along with the Hirshhorn Museum, the National Archives, and the National Museum of the American Indian, and others — conducted a study to examine possible consequences “out of a great abundance of caution,” a spokesperson said.“Based on the results, we have implemented a set of measures to ensure the...

Museum staffers in Ireland are finding it increasingly difficult to sustain a career in the field over unstable contracts, low pay and toxic working environments, according to Dr. Emma McAlister, who wrote a blog post on the issue for the International Council of Museums on Monday. As McAlister recounted, she has only been able to work in the Irish museum industry over the last two and a half years through a temporary rolling contract that, at times, would be renewed just one day before its expiration. Her experience isn’t isolated. A 2024 compensation study from the lobby group Irish Museums Association found there was an overreliance on temporary contracts and volunteers in the country’s museums. Around...

A sacred “talking drum” known as the Djidji Ayôkwé, looted from Côte d’Ivoire by French colonial troops over a century ago, returned this month to the place where it was made. According to the Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA), the drum arrived on August 7 at its home village of Adjame, where the local community was able to see it for the first time. The ten-foot-long, 940-pound drum has a single-piece cylindrical soundbox slit in half longitudinally. Extending out from the slit are two planks, one of which supports a carving of a jumping leopard. The box itself is decorated with carved and painted faces and geometric patterns. The massive instrument was once used by Côte d’Ivoire’s Atchan/Ebrié...

Walls, floors, human burials and 18th-century tiles have been uncovered in what was once the Hospital and Church of the Holy Spirit in Peru

Unlike the coasts, Midwestern culture is synonymous with the manual labor of blue-collar jobs, resilience necessary in harsh winters, and a certain friendliness that lends itself to a deep-rooted sense of community. These humble tenets grounded Melissa Joseph’s childhood in Saint Marys, a small, rural city in Pennsylvania, where she was born to a mother with Irish heritage and a father from Kerala, India. The melange of biracial life, Midwestern niceties, and gendered fiber art traditions are woven through Joseph’s artistic practice, which translates family photos into tender needle-felted scenes. In her forthcoming solo exhibition, Casserole Culture, the New York-based artist echoes the warmth and...

UK Taxpayers have shelled out nearly £150,000 ($202,700) to remove or secure works by anonymous British street artist Banksy. These costs were revealed through Freedom of Information requests made by the BBC.  Three artworks make up the lion’s share of the cost. The largest expense stems from a mural that appeared on a Grade II-listed […]

Recycled Paper Composite Shapes FRAGMENT’s Geological Forms
 
Lithuanian designer Donatas Žukauskas presents FRAGMENT, a collection of sculptural vessels that explores the relationship between architecture, geology, and object design. The series reinterprets the traditional vase as a sculptural form, using fractured geometries, asymmetrical silhouettes, and textured surfaces to create objects that resemble fragments of volcanic rock or weathered concrete.
 
Each piece is handmade from a proprietary composite developed by Žukauskas using recycled paper pulp, natural cement, mineral pigments, and binders. Although the surface resembles stone, volcanic rock, or aged concrete, the material is lightweight,...

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Banksy’s guerrilla artworks have generated millions of dollars in auction sales and drawn crowds wherever they appear. They’ve also left British taxpayers footing a growing cleanup bill. Public authorities across London have spent nearly $203,000 removing, protecting, and managing three of the anonymous street artist’s works since 2024, according to figures obtained by the BBC through Freedom of Information requests. The total will keep going up as officials continue efforts to erase one of the artist’s latest murals from the walls of London’s Royal Courts of Justice last year. The work, depicting a judge in a wig striking a protester with a gavel, has cost Britain’s Ministry of Justice...

Last Friday, a federal appeals court ruled that Trump cannot move forward with the construction of the ostentatious ballroom he plans to add to the White House without first receiving Congressional approval. “Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence,” the judges who made the ruling—Patricia […]

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Discover world-class museums, public art, sculpture gardens, local dining, and unforgettable cultural experiences, all within one vibrant, walkable city during the Milwaukee Art Escape. The limited-time promotion runs from August 21 through October 6, 2026, and invites you to explore some of Cream City’s best public art, cultural collections, and creative spaces. Wander the exhibitions of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Haggerty Museum of Art, MIAD Galleries, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Villa Terrace Museum & Gardens, Charles Allis Art Museum, and more. You can even join a guided tour with Sculpture Milwaukee or ride a Bublr Bike to Lion’s Tooth Books. And don’t forget to shop for souvenirs from Urban Milwaukee:...

The University of Bonn in Germany announced last week that numerous fossils and other exhibits have been stolen from its Goldfuß Museum. The university is now appealing to the public for information on items put up for sale or found on display, in order to secure their recovery. The university said it is not clear when the items were stolen, but that it occured during renovation work, which began in December 2023 and is ongoing. In a blog post published August 7, the university shared images of the missing items, and asked the public for assistance. “Anyone who has spotted one of the items shown, seen them being offered for sale—e.g. online, on fossil shows, trading platforms or in a store—or noticed...

Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley has announced Anne Reeve as its new senior curator, according to Artnet News. Reeve arrives to the outdoor museum from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, where she has worked since 2018, most recently as curator of modern and contemporary sculpture. She succeeds […]

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In our era of screens and proliferous imagery, it strains the imagination to comprehend a time before photography. Two centuries ago, an inventor named Nicéphore Niépce took the very first picture of his courtyard in France by fitting a pewter plate into a camera obscura. A few years later, a professional scene painter named Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre conceived of the aptly named daguerreotype, in which the image could be permanently fixed. He and Niépce both sold their technologies to the French government, which then published a how-to guide and facilitated the global spread of the process. In 1939, the first daguerrotypes were created in the U.S. As they say, the rest is history. Except, we often...

Heat-Fused Textile Waste Becomes a New Architectural Material
 
Fast Fashion Architecture is a material research project developed by London-based multidisciplinary designer Taylor Leung of 12103 Design Studio in collaboration with Chung Yin Jeffrey Kwong, Chao-An Chang, Chong Li, and Jiali Yan at The Bartlett School of Architecture in 2022. The project investigates how discarded synthetic textiles can be transformed into a construction material for furniture, structures, and architectural space.
 
The project examines the relationship between the production methods of fashion and architecture, focusing on shared approaches to textiles, material efficiency, and flexibility. It responds to the disposable...

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Richard Lynn would like to bring some operatic podcast episodes of The Sewers of Paris and Die Primadonnen to your attention.

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On Toronto’s newly formed Ookwemin Minising island, bricks from demolished homes, leftover concrete blocks, utility infrastructure and even milk crates have been given another job. The Waterfront Neighbourhood Space, developed by GXN, Ha/f Climate Design, AKT II and Arcana Materials, turns material salvaged from construction and demolition sites across the city into an outdoor gathering place for sitting, playing and meeting. Less pristine material palette, more urban leftovers with somewhere useful to be.
 
The project reverses a familiar architectural sequence. Rather than drawing a finished object and ordering whatever is required to build it, the team first mapped...

FOLDED INTO THE WATER
 
A new press brake and a landscape full of lakes proved a fairly persuasive combination. Designed by Guillaume Bloget during a residency at Rhizome in France’s Morvan region, Sharp is a kayak made from folded aluminum sheet and cork, conceived after the workshop acquired the machinery needed to shape its metallic hull. Rather than translating the familiar language of molded plastic or composite kayaks into metal, the project makes folding itself both structure and expression.
 
The hull was designed around a simple performance goal: transform the force of each paddle stroke into forward glide with as little loss as possible. Its hydrodynamic profile emerged through an iterative...

According to the BBC, Westminster council has also spent around £60,000 on security measures for a statue the street artist installed in central London in April

The Liverpool Street railway hub and 1 Silk Street are two of the latest contested developments in the heart of the capital, where new skyscrapers are clamouring to be built

The Lassonde Art Trail is part of a $1bn redevelopment project to revitalise the city's relationship with its waterways

Dementia and filth in the same clip!

The programme will include the redesign of displays, the creation of new exhibition space and the installation of new lighting systems

La pittura contemporanea ha spesso trasformato il ritorno in una narrazione di recupero: un’interruzione superata, una perdita convertita in nuova possibilità. When the Sun Shines Again, la prima grande personale newyorkese di Guimi You presso Lehmann Maupin, usa questa struttura per metterla in crisi. La mostra osserva ciò che accade quando il gesto artistico emerge da periodi di sospensione, quando il fare pittura si intreccia con la cura, l’attesa e forme di vita che tradizionalmente rimangono fuori dalla storia della produzione.
Guimi You, “When the Sun Shines Again”, installation view at Lehmann Maupin New York. Photography by Studio Kukla, courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul...

Shakespeare Opera Theatre presented two American operas exploring themes of hypocrisy and deception — in a church!

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Knokke Art Fair è una delle fiere d’arte più antiche al mondo e la più longeva tradizione internazionale sulla costa belga, un luogo speciale dove l’arte emoziona, giovani e anziani, curiosi ed esperti. Che sia ammirata tra le solenni mura di un luogo deputato o all’aria aperta (con una scultura site-specific), l’arte suscita emozioni, stimola la riflessione e invita al dialogo.
Vista esterna della location di Knokke Art Fair, edizione 2026
Knokke Art Fair è un evento del tutto indipendente, incentrato sulla qualità basata su un’accurata selezione che si svolge prima dell’apertura della fiera, ed è organizzata da Alexander Tuteleers. In questo luogo, il tempo sembra essersi fermato in...

Fino al 30 novembre 2026 il Parco Archeologico di Pompei ospita la mostra Philip Colbert in Pompeii: Pop Mythology. La mostra, curata da Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, espone oltre trenta sculture monumentali dell’artista britannico tra le quali protagonista assoluto è l’astice antropomorfo, alter ego dell’artista e ormai suo marchio riconoscibile.
Philip Colbert, ph. courtesy of the artist studio
Le opere di Colbert sono progettate per risultare subito leggibili e perfettamente compatibili con le aspettative della comunicazione social. Molti lavori si distinguono per l’uso di colori saturi, monumentalità, ironia pop e kitsch con citazioni della classicità ridotte a segni facilmente riconoscibili e nel...

By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

Known for her lush assemblages of flameworked glass, Amber Cowan reimagines a ubiquitous yet fragile medium. Flowers, filigree, and colorful baubles cluster into dense compositions that invoke fairytale narratives and whimsical nature scenes. Cowan typically works with industrial scraps, antiques, and other offcasts, which allows her to draw on products and colorways that are no longer in production. Currently leaning into cloche and coupe sculptures alongside her wall-based works, the Philadelphia-based artist is preparing for several upcoming exhibitions, including at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design in September and Design Miami in December. Her work is on view now in The Passion of Collecting...

The term “ark” invariably conjures images of the monumental boat onto which pairs of animals were stewarded prior to a cataclysmic, biblical flood. It’s a reference that feels apt amid the climate crisis and our planet’s rising sea levels, although in this case, the melting ice caps and creeping tides are down to us. The large-scale exhibition titled The Ark at Powerhouse Arts asks, will we care for the future of our planet the way we care for the animals we love? The presentation draws directly on the myth if The Deluge from Genesis, “an event of epic scale that becomes a metaphor for the present moment, where environmental and social upheaval converge,” says a statement. “Throughout the...

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Zémire et Azor, André-Ernest-Modest Grétry's riff on "Beauty and the Beast", gets a rare outing in the Berkshires.

Nell’estate del 1896, durante l’Esposizione panrussa di Nižnij Novgorod, Maksim Gorkij assiste a una delle prime proiezioni del cinematografo Lumière e prova a raccontare un’esperienza che ancora non possiede un linguaggio. Del cinematografo scrive poco, della novità tecnica ancora meno. Il suo sguardo si sposta subito altrove. A colpirlo è qualcosa che continua a sfuggire anche oggi, quando le immagini in movimento fanno ormai parte della nostra quotidianità.
Janis Rafa, “Baby I’m Yours, Forever”, 2026 in “Canicula”, Fondazione In Between Art Film presso Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venezia, 2026. Courtesy dell’artista e Fondazione In Between Art Film. Foto © Marco Cappelletti e...

Interno giorno. Lo studio di Mario Raciti è immerso dentro una magnifica baraonda, sulla quale cadono pochi raggi filtrati dalle persiane, appena scompigliati da un ventilatore a soffitto. Viene strano pensare che, fino al 20 settembre, l’altro capo di questo studio affiorerà dentro la compostezza del Palazzo Reale di Milano. Per preparare le domande che seguono mi sono abbondantemente rifatto al volume di Mario Raciti Scritti e testimonianze, edito da Taut nel 2023 a cura di Iacopo Pesenti. Si è trattato di un passaggio essenziale per superare l’imbarazzo intrinseco del parlare di pittura, e specialmente di una pittura come quella di Raciti, che fa metodo dell’elusione sistematica di tutti i punti di...

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Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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A selection of recent work by artist Emma Steinkraus. Based in Lexington, Virginia, Steinkraus  
   
   
   
   
 
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By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...

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“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...

By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...