A selling show at Nature Morte gallery will include work from across the outspoken Chinese artist’s career—amid reports of rising censorship in India

The artists-run, non-profit space says its lease had not been renewed

Yellow Architects turns a storage fridge into a hospitality space
 
Meshek by Yellow Architects is the adaptive reuse of a former vegetable storage fridge into a contemporary hospitality space. The project reinterprets the existing industrial structure through a restrained material palette and precise architectural interventions, balancing references to the building’s original function with updated spatial requirements.
 
Corrugated metal wall cladding is introduced as a direct reference to the former refrigeration units, preserving the industrial character of the space. This is complemented by exposed lighting systems and polished concrete flooring, which reinforce the utilitarian logic of the original...

The Bromley cottage where the singer is thought to have written ‘Space Oddity’ will open to the public later next year

Habitario explores Mexican domestic spaces and their wounds
 
Habitario by Brenda Isabel Pérez is an art and research project presented in the format of a board game that examines domestic space in Mexico through narrative construction and spatial speculation. The project defines habitarios as both physical and symbolic environments in which everyday life unfolds, social relationships are formed, and collective memory is shaped. Within this framework, domestic space is treated as a site for rethinking existing structures and imagining alternative spatial models. Developed with the support of the Jóvenes Creadores grant (formerly FONCA), Habitario forms part of U/Topías domésticas, the project awarded the...

Opening 30 January 2026 in JAX District, In Interludes and Transitions brings together more than 65 artists from over 37 nations, tracing shared histories of movement, exchange, and transformation across the Arab region and beyond. […]

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As an editor, you learn to pay attention to the nuances of language. How we phrase something can speak volumes about our perspectives. Some words are fine in one context, but in another they might be detrimental. "Victim" is an example — who wants “victimhood” to encompass their whole person? And possessives are a minefield of power relationships; for instance, a person experiencing mistreatment at the hands of a partner should be defined by neither the treatment nor the tormenter (who, most often, deserves that title).Our review today of Sue Roe's new book Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life bears witness to this intertwining of language and violence. As it attempts to tell the...

Five artists are in the running for the prize, which offers €35,000 and an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris to the winner

Le opere di Sara Enrico (Torino, 1979) abitano un territorio di confine, fatto di pulsazioni, ambiguità e tensioni sensoriali che dialogano con le genealogie dell’Eccentric Abstraction, quella sfida alla radice delle forme primarie che informava le riflessioni di Lucy Lippard trovando attuazione nella prima esperienza espositiva alla Marilyn Fischbach Gallery di New York nel 1966. A questo magma sensistico afferiscono artiste come Eva Hesse, Dorothea Tanning, Keith Sonnier, Alice Adams, Louise Bourgeois, nelle cui opere i confini si dissolvono generando “qualcosa di più sensuale e sensibile”[1]. Sara Enrico utilizza materiali di diversa natura per costruire oggetti che oscillano tra corpo e...

eco-friendly construction blocks made from plastic waste
 
Meet Eco-C Cube, an eco-friendly construction block built from recycled plastic waste, such as old fishing nets, buoys, agricultural vinyl, mulching film, and other mixed, discarded plastic. The manufacturer Westec Global relies on what it describes as New-Cycling process. Instead of cleaning, sorting, and breaking plastics down into raw polymers, mixed plastic waste is fused directly into usable blocks to preserve the materials’ strength and flexibility while avoiding the cost and emissions that are often linked with traditional recycling. 
 
Because washing and sorting are eliminated, water use and chemical use are also reduced, resulting in the...

site-specific performance offers first look inside Dymak’s hq
 
Ahead of its recent completion, Dymak’s new headquarters in Odense, Denmark, becomes the backdrop for a site-specific performance by local dance company KOMA Ballet, offering an early glimpse into BIG’s circular workplace designed around flexibility, material tactility, and high-energy performance. The 2,800-square-meter timber building serves as a spatial framework for both human and environmental movement, positioning the workplace as an adaptable ecosystem.
 
Designed by BIG LEAP, BIG’s in-house architecture, landscape, engineering, and product design studio, the headquarters is organized as a continuous loop that connects departments...

The Milan-based Fondazione Prada will stage a two-person exhibition of Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince at its Venice space during the upcoming Biennale. Opening to the public on May 9, the same day as the Biennale, the exhibition carries the title “Helter Skelter” and is curated by Nancy Spector, the former artistic director of the Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition will be organized around “a series of thematic juxtapositions” of both Prince’s and Jafa’s works that will “illuminate each of their practices and tease out shared subject matter and mutual obsessions,” according to a press release. It will also debut a “long creative conversation” between the two artists that has not been...

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Arkhive: A Full-Scale Pavilion Testing Robotic Assembly
 
Arkhive is a full-scale pavilion developed by master’s students from the Design for Manufacture (DfM) program at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. The project explores robotic fabrication and reconfigurable construction systems through an adaptable timber truss structure assembled using interlocking joinery.
 
The pavilion was conceived as a demonstrator for construction systems that can be fully disassembled, reconfigured, and reused. Designed and built by students and staff, the free-standing structure is organized around two twisting timber arches anchored to steel plinths. These arches are stabilised by robotically assembled ladder-beam...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has quietly removed wall text referencing President Trump’s two impeachments after installing a new portrait of him in its “America’s Presidents” exhibition, the New York Times reported Sunday. The original label highlighted several of Trump’s political milestones, including his appointment of three Supreme Court justices and what it described as a “historic comeback in the 2024 election” following his loss to Joe Biden four years earlier. It also noted that Trump had been impeached twice—first for abuse of power and later for inciting an insurrection after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol—and that he was acquitted by the Senate on...

Che le tecnologie digitali stiano riconfigurando il campo dell’arte contemporanea è ormai un dato acquisito. Meno scontato è capire in che direzione si stia muovendo questa trasformazione e quali siano gli snodi critici che meritano attenzione. È a questa necessità di orientamento che risponde Transforming Arts, l’evento organizzato dall’Accademia di Belle Arti di Catania per il 15 e 16 gennaio 2026, nell’ambito del più ampio progetto ART.IT – Art in Transition, finanziato dal PNRR e coordinato dall’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna in collaborazione con altri enti accademici. Non si tratta di una semplice rassegna di novità tecnologiche applicate all’arte, ma di un tentativo più...

What counts as sculpture? 20th century practitioners consistently pushed the boundaries of what it meant to produce three-dimensional art. Pieces were designed to decay or be dismantled, existing only fleetingly, moving out of traditional gallery spaces to explore how sculpture relates to the natural world. Anish Kapoor’s mirrored and void-like forms explore perception, space and time, whilst Jeff Koon’s highly-polished large-scale forms appropriate kitsch and consumer imagery. These five exhibitions foreground some of the most influential figures who have shaped what it means to create sculpture, and those who continue to question the creation of art, who it is for and who is excluded.  Mona Hatoum:...

Arte Fiera ritorna dal 6 all’8 febbraio 2026, con preview fissata per il 5 febbraio. Sono riconfermati i padiglioni 25 e 26 con agevole ingresso da Piazza Costituzione. Questo sarà l’anno della prima direzione artistica di Davide Ferri che sarà affiancato da Enea Righi, nel ruolo di direttore operativo.
Enea Righi (a sx) e Davide Ferri. Foto di Chiara Francesca Rizzuti, courtesy Arte Fiera
Alla prossima edizione di Arte Fiera parteciperanno 174 gallerie, a cui bisogna aggiungere dodici stand della sezione dedicata all’editoria e quattordici dedicati agli enti istituzionali, per un totale di duecento espositori. Alla Main Section di Arte Fiera saranno presenti molte gallerie prestigiose; ne...

I had the pleasure of going with some members of the Pittsburgh Opera to the PROTOTYPE Festival in New York at the start of the year- almost unfortunate it was so early on in 2025 because it set my expectations for the year so high!

New Contemporaries has announced the 26 artists selected for its 2026 edition, a touring exhibition opening later this month at the South London Gallery before travelling to MIMA in Middlesbrough in spring. From the end of January through to August these two institutions will host a snapshot of emerging practice in the UK, bringing together artists working across painting, sculpture, installation, photography and moving image. As the gallery prepares to open its doors, New Contemporaries arrives not simply as a showcase but as a declaration: that the future of art is shaped at its earliest stages and that attention, space and belief must be extended now if new voices are to be heard. Founded in 1949 by artists...

Holland’s Mauritshuis museum in The Hague announced on Thursday that the best-known work in its collection, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, will travel to Japan this fall. The news was reported by the Japan Times. The 17th-century masterpiece will be on temporary loan to the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka while the Dutch museum is closed for renovations in August and September. The painting was last loaned to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for its 2023 Vermeer retrospective. “Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of the most famous paintings in the world,” the museum said, “and is a key reason for many people to visit the Mauritshuis. It is therefore loaned to other institutions only in...

Beatriz González, a Colombian painter who ranks among the most important Latin American artists of the 20th century, died on Friday at her home in Bogotá at 93. Galerie Peter Kilchmann, her Zurich-based representative, announced her passing but did not specify a cause. González’s wide-ranging oeuvre tested painterly taboos and flirted with controversy. Working with a color palette that was often termed garish or unpleasing to the eye, she initially gained fame during the 1960s by remaking art historical masterpieces, then pivoted during the ’80s, a period when she began to paint explicitly political images critiquing her nation’s government and acts of violence that made headlines. Her art rarely fit...

Jessica Backhaus (b. 1970) is an artist who strips photography back to its fundamentals: light, shadow, colour. Her work is rooted in documentary practice, expanding the tradition through a lyric, abstract visual language. In her series, Cut Outs (2021), she arranged paper shapes until the relentless Berlin sun, capturing the pieces as they curled and bent, freezing their movement in a split second. In Plein Soleil, close-up and zoomed in pictures show turquoise pages coiling and casting shadows over contrasting magenta sheets. Now, FFFrankfurt presents a major retrospective of the artist, considered one of the most influential German practitioners working today. Shadows Might Dance brings together works...

A parte la via e la galleria e il vetro che le divide, resta la mischia. Lo dice la parete: in alto come in basso, tutta la mostra scaturisce intorno alla mischia di un singolo orizzonte; quel punto là, dove il cielo viene a sapersi cielo e la terra terra, ciascuno dentro l’avanzo dell’Altro. La mostra è La particella di Dio, prima personale di Riccardo Ricca, a cura di Luca Cantore d’Amore, con un testo critico di Giulia Ronchi, presso la galleria Fabbrica Eos fino al 18 gennaio 2026.
Riccardo Ricca, “La particella di Dio”, 2025, exhibition view at Fabbrica Eos, Milano, courtesy of the artist and Fabbrica Eos
L’orizzonte è il solco che sancisce i termini del paragone fra i due principali...

It's a dazzling, shocking, and entertaining 100 minutes - one of the best new operas I've seen.

They killed Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good in cold blood. They shot two other people in Portland in the same week. They abducted a foreign leader, shamelessly laying claim to his country's oil. They're bullying the Smithsonian into submission, vulgarizing culture, uglifying art, dismantling democracy, and dumbing down an entire nation.The stories below respond to the shocking events of this week, once again demonstrating the power of art and community in the face of political oppression and violence. At a time like this, we can't afford apolitical and ahistorical art media owned by a handful of Trump-loving billionaires. Become a Hyperallergic Member today to support art journalism about...

The closure last year of the Cape Town museum has “left people angry and deeply suspicious”

Washington National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center, according to The New York Times

LOS ANGELES — The 31st edition of the LA Art Show is back this week at the downtown Convention Center, more than a month before Frieze, Felix, and Post-Fair roll into town. Although it is LA’s longest-running art fair, the show is somewhat of an outcast, snubbed as pedestrian, too commercial, and out of touch with the cutting edge of the global art world. But at the rear of the cavernous exhibition hall, a pair of projects organized by curator Marisa Caichiolo gives visitors a sense of the fair’s cultural and political relevance.Caichiolo organized the first Latin American Pavilion at the fair, a modest group of three booths: Artier Gallery from Palm Springs, Verse Gallery from Ft. Lauderdale, and...

Seven years after an undercover sting led police to a house packed with stolen art in the hills above Nice, France, the case has returned to court, with ten defendants now on trial over a cache that included several works by Pablo Picasso. The trial, which opened earlier this month in Nice, revisits a 2017 judicial police operation that recovered more than 20 stolen artworks, including at least seven works by Picasso, following a tip that major pieces were being quietly offered for sale on the Côte d’Azur. According to reporting by French newspaper Nice-Matin, investigators from the Police Judiciaire went undercover, posing as a Swiss buyer and his assistant, after receiving intelligence from...

South Africa has scrapped a performance mourning victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza that was selected for the country's 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion. In a statement to Hyperallergic, a spokesperson for the nation's Department of Sport, Arts and Culture said the pavilion “should not be used to amplify similarly divisive global disputes that do not center South Africa’s own story,” adding: “We need to use our platforms to sell our country to the world.”Artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo's proposal for the South African presentation, titled Elegy after Goliath's decade-long vocal performance series, had been chosen for the Biennale by an independent committee...

By marrying the realistic with the fantastical and uncanny, Stephanie Temma Hier conjures tension: there’s a calf-hair necktie that morphs into a table fan, popcorn surrounding pink ballet shoes, and a rapt snake framed by orange igneous rocks. The Brooklyn-based artist is formally trained as a painter and self-taught as a ceramicist, and she fuses the two modes of working into a complementary practice. Hier begins by sculpting a wide range of forms, and after several rounds of firing with both handmade and commercially available glazes, she adds a painting. The pairings arise intuitively, sometimes through free association, trial and error, or by homing in on a color. Earlier works include a decadent,...

According to the White House, two international groups working on cultural heritage preservation and arts policy are “contrary to the interests of the United States” and “waste taxpayer dollars.”The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) are among 66 organizations or treaties from which President Trump withdrew in a memorandum on Wednesday, January 7.Headquartered in Australia, the IFACCA collaborates with government arts agencies and conducts research on issues that impact cultural policy decisions, such as arts funding and cultural labor. The group is perhaps...

WOLIN, POLAND—According to a Science in Poland report, traces of four unusual huts dated to the eleventh or twelfth century have been uncovered on an island in the Baltic Sea near the coast of Poland. Researchers were excavating an area once known as Srebrne Wzgórze on the northern edge of the medieval town, where there had been a market and craft workshops, when they unearthed the huts. “They are platforms made of clay and sand, surrounded by a ditch,” said Wojciech Filipowiak of the Polish Academy of Sciences. “Some have a hearth, some have an oven,” he added. Pottery, animal bones, Norwegian whetstones, glass beads, and metal objects were also recovered. “We have not seen structures like this...

Mandible during excavation in Thomas Quarry, Morocco CASABLANCA, MOROCCO—A team of Moroccan and French researchers suggests that they have identified the remains of the last common ancestor of modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans, according to a Live Science report. The 773,000-year-old fossils, including three partial lower jaws, several vertebrae, and teeth, were discovered in a cave in Morocco’s Thomas Quarry. They have some characteristics of Homo erectus, which evolved in Africa some two million years ago. Some Homo erectus groups migrated out of Africa, and reached Europe about 800,000 years ago. Those in Spain, known as Homo antecessor, are thought to be direct ancestors of Neanderthals....

Carnyx NORFOLK, ENGLAND—EuroNews reports that a collection of Iron Age objects was unearthed during an archaeological investigation conducted ahead of a construction project in the East of England. A nearly complete Celtic battle trumpet, or carnyx, and parts of a second one were found in the hoard, in addition to a bronze boar head from a military standard and five shield bosses. “The carnyces and the boar-headed standard are styles well known on the continent and remind us that communities in Britain were well connected to a wider European world at the time,” said Fraser Hunter of National Museums Scotland. To read about the mouthpiece of a Roman horn discovered at the site of Vindolanda in northern...

In 1666, the marriage of Emperor Leopold I and Infanta Margarita Teresa of Spain solidified a political alliance between the Austrian and Spanish sides of the Habsburg family. They were also both uncle and niece and first cousins, such was the intense insularity of royal marriages intended to gain or maintain power across Europe. The union was arranged while Margarita Teresa was very young—she was only around 15 when they married—and during the years leading up to the wedding, court painter Diego Velázquez created numerous portraits of her, which were sent to Leopold I in the form of tokens or updates documenting the imperial bride’s development into a young woman. “Them, after Hodges, Kruseman,...

Entriamo in conversazione con l’artista Giorgia Mascitti (San Benedetto del Tronto, 1995) e la curatrice Miriam di Francesco (Atri, 1988) in occasione della mostra personale Davanti a un gran bosco a THEPÒSITO Art Space, concepita in relazione con il Festival “Rigenerarsi” a Narni. L’artista e la curatrice dialogano sulle opere in mostra evocandone la dimensione fiabesca, onirica e immaginativa, quali metafore del contemporaneo.
Giorgia Mascitti, “Davanti a un gran bosco”, curated by Miriam di Francesco installation view, ph. Aldo Destino, courtesy the artist and THEPÒSITO Art Space
Sara Buoso: Vorreste parlarci del vostro background e della natura del vostro rapporto in relazione alla mostra...

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Tobias Kratzer digs beneath the surface of Strauss's Intermezzo in an excellent new DVD from Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Meet five photographers longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize who are redefining how we see the landscape. These artists move beyond traditional depictions of place, experimenting with time, perception and materiality to transform the natural world into something immersive and unexpected. From long-exposure forests that blur movement and stillness, to layered scenes that collapse multiple viewpoints into a single frame, their works challenge the boundaries between reality and imagination. They offer fresh perspectives on landscape photography, reflecting innovation and engagement with the environment. Gjert Rognli The force of nature is at the heart of Gjert Rognli’s artistic practice. He works across...

In 1955, New York’s MoMA opened The Family of Man, an ambitious exhibition which brought together hundreds of images by photographers around the world. It was organised by Edward Steichen, whose aim was to demonstrate “the gamut of life from birth to death” through pictures. The display toured internationally and was seen by more than 9 million visitors, and is now regarded as one of the most famous shows of all time. Perhaps most importantly, it positioned the idea of “family” as something bigger than our immediate, or biological, circles. The images showed how complex and wide-reaching the term can be – highlighting shared experiences across borders. Now, Brussels’ Hangar presents Family...

Kathleen Goncharov, who launched her career at Linda Goode’s pathbreaking New York gallery Just Above Midtown and went on to serve as US Commissioner for the Fiftieth Venice Biennale, died in her Boca Raton, Florida, home on December 31. She was seventy-three. Goncharov was widely esteemed for her staunch advocacy of such artists as El […]

The leaders of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) at a January 6 press conference publicly denounced the Flemish government’s scheme to dissolve it and move its collection to a museum in another city, contending that the plan is “flagrantly” illegal. As reported by Flemish news platform VRT, their pronouncement was based on […]

With a two-headed, dozen-eyed Mona Lisa, a disjointed Frida Kahlo exploding like tiny little pieces of glass, and a tiny Napoleon in Egypt sitting on a gargantuan, long-limbed horse, collage artist and illustrator Lola Dupre proves that there’s art to be done after art is… well… done. Click above to read the full article by Liana Aghajanian.
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The world’s largest island that isn’t its own continent, Greenland spans more than 836,000 square miles. As we’ve been reminded recently, the territory is part of the Realm of Denmark, although it has its own systems of local government. Greenland is home to only about 56,000 people, the vast majority of whom are Inuit and live on the southern part of the island that’s not covered in ice. The largest city, Nuuk, houses around one-third of the country’s population. And situated just south of the Arctic Circle, residents only see a few hours of sunlight during the day in mid-winter. Hunting and fishing have traditionally sustained a subsistence lifestyle for Greenlanders, and today, the latter...

A researcher extracts DNA from a sample in the University of Tartu's laboratory. VIENNA, AUSTRIA—According to a statement released by the University of Vienna, a team of scientists from the University of Vienna, the University of Tartu, Cambridge University, and University College London have reconstructed the genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from samples taken from human remains recovered from archaeological sites in Europe. Today, HHV-6B infects about 90 percent of children by age two, causing roseola infantum, also known as “sixth disease,” an illness characterized by a rash and a fever. In addition to causing illness, these viruses are capable of integrating into human...

AKASZTÓ, HUNGARY—According to a Live Science report, the 1,100-year-old graves of three warriors have been excavated in southern Hungary by a team led by Wihelm Gábor of the Katona József Museum. A total of 81 coins were recovered from the three burials. Most of these coins were minted in northern Italy during the reign of Berengar, between A.D. 888 and 924. Gábor and his colleagues suggest that the three warriors may have participated in military campaigns in northern Italy and carried the coins home. The first man was 17 or 18 years old when he died. He was buried wearing a belt decorated with gilded silver, a leather pouch decorated with silver plate, a gold ring with blue glass stones, and silver...

Roughly one hundred Uffizi staffers staged a demonstration in the courtyard of the venerable Florence institution on January 4, protesting an effective layoff of the museum’s casual workers spurred by a change in service managers. Unfurling a large banner reading “Basta Vite Precarie” (“Enough with Precarious Life”), the protesters used flags and bright green flares […]

In an otherwise unassuming neighborhood in Beppu, Ōita Prefecture, Japan, a modest residence has undergone an unusual transformation. Thanks to Japanese art collective 目, the two-story private home has been hollowed out, in a sense, to create a literal cavern. 目 translates to “eye” and is pronounced “mé,” and the group comprises artist Haruka Kojin, director Kenji Minamigawa, and installer Hirofumi Masui. The trio’s focus revolves around conceiving works that encourage new ways of seeing the world as it constantly changes and evolves before us. Often playing with perception, pieces have included ocean swells that appear frozen in time and space and giant balloons of people’s faces that float...

Thibaut Grevet is a French director and photographer who moves through the world with an eye tuned to the unseen. His images slip between reality and reverie, blending people, architecture, and landscape into quiet collisions of shape, shadow, and motion. What he captures often feels less like documentation and more like memory—soft, shifting, and charged with an otherworldly calm. Grevet works in moments that unfold on their own terms: unposed, unpolished, and beautifully transient. He gravitates toward what flickers at the edge of perception, revealing details that many overlook but that, in his hands, expand into entire worlds. His 2025–26 collaboration with New York City Ballet extends this dialogue...

Jana Euler’s paintings are crowded with symbolically charged motifs—sharks, sockets, slugs, dollar bills, bodily close-ups, and her own fantastical animal, the morecorn. Each stars as the protagonist in its own series of works, and puts us in touch with a different attitude toward reality. Her canvases may seem metaphorical, producing impressions of how it feels […]

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The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has named the more than sixty-five artists set to participate in the third iteration of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale. Titled “In Interludes and Transitions (في الحِلّ والترحال),” the exhibition will open January 30 in the JAX District, an industrial site turned arts complex in the historic town of Diriyah, near […]

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