FlexiSpot Japanese Bed Frame replaces the traditional Thuma bed
  The FlexiSpot Japanese Bed Frame combines traditional joinery-inspired construction with a minimalist wooden design, focusing on structural stability, reduced noise, and functional features such as an adjustable headboard and enhanced underbed clearance for practical bedroom use.
 
The growing popularity of Japanese joinery bed frames reflects a broader interest in minimalist interiors, quiet structural systems, and visible craftsmanship. Within this category, the Thuma bed frame has become a reference point for clean-lined wooden platform beds. The FlexiSpot Japanese Joinery Bed Frame approaches similar design principles through a more...

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Tired of Turandot? "The Dancing Goddess” at the China Institute Gallery gives us a glimpse at a real Peking Opera queen.

i/thee lets matter take part
 
Experimental design studio i/thee treats softness as a way of working with the world, giving agency to mud, algae, paper, wood, weather, and play. Across public installations, experimental shelters, and landscape pavilions, the studio builds through exchange instead of command.
 
Materials are poured, eroded, laminated, stacked, or cast into the ground, then allowed to carry traces of gravity, touch, climate, and chance. The work is generous as it asks architecture to listen before it takes shape.
 
The team describes its practice through the idea of ‘cosentience,’ a term which it uses to connect living and nonliving things. That sensibility gives the work its unusual...

For as long as humans have been making art, they have looked to celestial bodies for inspiration. The oldest example is the Nebra Sky Disk, believed to be 3,600 years old, dating from the Bronze Age. It is the world’s oldest map of the stars. Across centuries, artists have used the sun and the moon to explore power, divinity and emotion, from Egyptian recreations of the sun as the god Ra to Medieval Christian artists using sunlight to represent divine order. Romantic painters took the moon as the ultimate symbol of the sublime, such as in Caspar David Friedrich’s Two Men Contemplating the Moon (1825), whilst later Impressionists used the sun to capture fleeting moments, most famously in Claude...

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Much as I love the Abbado Deutsche Grammophon studio set, this 1980 San Francisco Opera live Simon Boccanegra under Lamberto Gardelli has an emotional punch.

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manual: a book of a single material
 
Developed by Studio Darius Ou with Benson Chong, Manual is a fully 3D-printed book that carries part of the machine code used to fabricate its own body.
 
The object arrives with a strange directness. Its pages, binding, and raised marks are produced in one printing sequence, so the book comes off the print bed already formed. There is no separate assembly stage, no later binding process, no applied graphic layer. The marks belong to the same material logic as the pages themselves.
 
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In Perfectly Normal—the exhibition from Dustin Myers that ran at Los Angeles gallery Thinkspace Projects in November 2023—the Southern California artist presented a collection of young characters painted in oils. Posed in the awkward-yet-endearing postures associated with school photographs, the characters’ exaggerated facial features reveal a bevy of emotions. Some are ready for their close-up. […]
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“I have a passion for product design; most of the motifs I draw are related to consumer products,” says Shohei Ochiai. The Tokyo-based artist studied at Tama Art University, where he graduated about a decade ago, and is an admirer of the designs of consumer product company Braun, Memphis Group founder Ettore Sottsass, and famed […]
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The upcoming presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long embroidered cloth depicting the Norman invasion of 1066, figures to be the blockbuster exhibition of the year for the British Museum. The institution is pricing tickets like it is. On Thursday, the museum said that tickets to see the tapestry, which goes on view September 10 through July 11, 2027, will cost £33 for a standard adult ticket, or about $45. That’s the high end, for “peak” times. During off-peak times, i.e. non-holiday, non summer weekdays until 5:10 p.m., an adult ticket will cost £27. Tickets for Students and disabled visitors are a flat £25. All tickets get you a 40-minute visit with the tapestry. The first two weeks of...

ABOVE: Photo of Martha Rich by Andrea Cipriani Mecchi Any artist will tell you one of the greatest gifts they ever earned was the moment they found their style—their singular take on subject, creation, and process. But much harder earned is the gift of confidence, that ability to continue in one’s style, despite all the […]
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Chet Zar is best known for painting monsters, but over the past few years, flowers have been creeping to the center of his canvases. Zar’s blooms—hibiscus, stargazers, and sunflowers amongst them—are so vibrant that you can instantly imagine their fragrance. Their vivid colors and pert petals might stand in contrast to the unsettling, sometimes terrifying, […]
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Mario Trimarchi translates clouds into abstract compositions
 
Mario Trimarchi continues his exploration at the intersection of design, architecture, and art, studying the forms of clouds and capturing their unpredictability through a series of black-and-white ink drawings and small metal sculptures. Clouds as Prayers is the title of this exhibition, presented at the Paula Seegy Gallery in Milan, offering a reflection on design as an act capable of generating attention and silence within a present marked by instability and uncertainty.
‘Prayer for the Return Journey’ – Mario Trimarchi, 2026, various metals | all images by Fabio Viganò unless stated otherwise
 
 
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The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust released a statement on Saturday slamming the recent decision by New York’s Danziger Gallery to offer an AI-generated artwork referencing the famed photographer’s work at the 2026 edition of the AIPAD Photography Show in April. The artwork, which still appears on Danziger’s website, does not contain a title but is headlined A.I. GENERATED, From the prompt: Make a realistic color version of Ansel Adams’ iconic “Moonrise Over Hernandez”. It is listed as printed by master printer Esteban Mauchi. Danziger offered the piece in its booth at the fair—which ran from April 22 to April 26—alongside work by Seydou Keïta, Hoda Afshar, and Matthew Porter, among...

Constance: A Confession, presented in Brooklyn by Experiments in Opera, satirizes our digital age with style.

Anna Pirozzi makes a welcome return to the Metropolitan Opera, but Turandot remains as thorny as ever.

How do we face worsening ecological change with anything other than despair? This is the question at the heart of Vancouver Art Gallery’s latest exhibition. Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change is the first major show in Canada to examine the intersection of contemporary art and climate change on a global scale. As Curator at Large Eva Respini says: “Artists are not scientists, nor are they journalists, but they have a role to play in asking questions about our future on this planet. In this century shaped by climate change, that act of imagining is both a necessity and a form of resistance.” Research by the World Health Organisation shows that 3.6 billion people already live in...

I skipped the New York art fairs this season. Went to none, not even the so-called "anti-fair" fairs. It was a choice, a kind of detox. And guess what? I don't feel like I missed anything. Soon after, a spate of auctions culminated in the record-breaking sale of a Jackson Pollock for $181 million at Christie's. I wasn't there either, and I had 181 million reasons to not care.Instead, I kept thinking of pioneering performance artist Linda Montano, who's now 84. She invited our contributor Taliesin Thomas into her home-shrine in Upstate NY, welcoming her in a devotional chicken costume. God bless "Chicken Linda." I urge you to read this profile.I was also thinking about Gabrielle...

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Transforming the Ritual of Letter Writing into Sculptural Design
 
As handwritten letters quietly disappear from daily life, designer Maja Stamenković translates the ritual of correspondence into a sculptural object. Named Love Letters »M«, the collectible side table reimagines the letter M as a three-dimensional form, crowned by a triangular volume inspired by the flap of an opened envelope. The project continues Stamenković’s ongoing Love Letters series of nightstands, where the drawer previously took the form of an envelope.
 
In this new iteration, the envelope is abstracted into geometry and typography: the letter M becomes the structure itself, shifting the series from functional storage...

Zineb Sedira has long occupied a singular position within contemporary art – an artist whose practice moves fluidly between film, photography, installation and performance to interrogate the fragile architecture of memory, migration and postcolonial identity. Born in Paris to Algerian parents and later establishing herself in London, Sedira has spent decades tracing the emotional residue left by geopolitical rupture, often focusing on the afterlives of displacement and the silences embedded within official histories. Her installations are marked by a cinematic sensibility that privileges atmosphere as much as narrative, creating spaces where archives become living organisms and spectators become participants...

The previously popular bipartisan legislation was undone by Republican additions about “biological women” and allowing Trump to override its location on the National Mall

The artist’s new large-scale sculptures in Madison Square Park pay homage to the island’s diaspora and its most beloved figures

Brent Sikkema (photo courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Company)A federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty for his role in the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, the New York art dealer Brent Sikkema.The 75-year-old gallerist was stabbed 18 times in his Rio de Janeiro townhouse in the early hours of January 14, 2024, in a brutal crime that shocked the art world and left Sikkema's loved ones searching for answers. The main suspect was soon identified as Alejandro Triana Prevez, a Cuban security guard and delivery driver living in Brazil who claimed that he had been contracted by Daniel Sikkema to commit the crime. He was arrested by Brazilian law enforcement four days after the incident. Prevez remains...

In Columbia University’s MFA show, artist Alejandro Valencia loudly names the elephant in the room: The Manhattan school’s institutional failure to come to terms with Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. “DYNAMO (RATM01)” (2026) is included in the Visual Arts + Sound Art Class of 2026’s thesis exhibition, on view at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery through this Sunday, May 24. The work resembles an engine room, alluding to the institution's hidden machinery. Its three modules feature sundials, evoking the university campus’ iconic central landmark, but compressing and constricting what they precariously hold. Columbia’s 2026 graduating MFA cohort had to weather a storm on the way...

After a day of Googling why my back hurt (sedentary computer lifestyle, inflamed SI joint), it only made sense that the art fair I attended the same afternoon would contain some element of human-technology body horror.When I arrived at the Thursday press preview for Focus Art Fair, dedicated to Asian art and held at Chelsea Industrial through Sunday, May 24, it seemed fitting that I would walk into a lobby filled with digital elements. I immediately met a recording of myself on a computer screen, but this version of me had a giant eyeball superimposed on her. The interactive installation, "What if two eyes don't work together?" by South Korean artist Hwia Kim, is the first taste visitors get of the...

English Heritage, a charity that manages over 400 historic sites across England, unveiled their reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building at Stonehenge on Friday. The $1.34 million, 23-foot-high Kusuma Neolithic Hall, which will open this summer, aims to help visitors imagine the lives of Stonehenge’s prehistoric builders. The hall is based on the footprint of a long-vanished building at the nearby Neolithic archaeological site Durrington Walls and was built over nine months by more than 100 volunteers. Under the guidance of award-winning experimental archaeologist Luke Winter, the volunteers used only prehistoric tools, including stone axes, and locally sourced materials such as reed thatch, pine timbers,...

Daniel Sikkema, the estranged husband of murdered New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, was found guilty Friday in a Manhattan federal court, according to the Wall Street Journal. Daniel Sikkema faced charges tied to a murder-for-hire plot that prosecutors said led to the dealer’s killing at his vacation home in Rio de Janeiro in 2024.  The case has gripped the art world since Brent Sikkema, the founder of the Chelsea gallery then known as Sikkema Jenkins & Co., was found stabbed to death in Brazil at age 75. Prosecutors argued that Daniel Sikkema orchestrated the killing from New York amid a bitter divorce and custody dispute involving the couple’s son. Federal prosecutors accused Daniel Sikkema of...

Legislation aimed at advancing the construction of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum in Washington, DC, failed in the House on May 21 after Democrats rejected changes added to the bill by Republicans in March, the New York Times reports. According to Politico, the bill, presented by Republican Representative Nicole Malliotakis, of New York, was […]

Unionized staff at the Ohio State University's (OSU) Wexner Center for the Arts have officially called for the renaming of the institution and other campus buildings named after Les Wexner, the university's billionaire benefactor who had granted convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney over his massive fortune for decades. In its official statement to the university, Wex Workers United said that the retail magnate's name “does a profound disservice to the incredible artists we work with and to our community members who deserve to engage with art without feeling complicit in supporting human traffickers, rapists, and pedophiles.”A union representative who spoke to...

President Donald Trump announced the idea of building a triumphal arch, modeled on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, at a holiday party last December. At the time, he said that planning and construction of the proposed arch should be domestic policy chief Vince Haley’s “primary thing.” The project’s architect, Nicolas Leo Charbonneau, a principal at the firm Harrison Design and leader of its “Sacred Architecture Studio,” told the New York Times that “the intent of the arch is a celebration in America of 250 years of greatness, freedom, and posterity, for which we can only thank the wisdom of our founders and God’s providence.” The proposal was met with almost immediate pushback from the general...

Unionized staffers at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, have demanded that the institution remove top funder Les Wexner’s name from its moniker following the discovery of his close ties to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. According to a May 21 post to their Instagram, Wexner Workers United (WWU), under the […]

Manuel Segade, the director of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain’s national museum of 20th century art, has been threatened by lawmakers with removal from his post if he fails to complete an inventory of the museum’s collection by December 31st of this year, ARTnews reports.  Following his appointment in 2023, Segade has […]

Combined, the prizes will provide as much as $113,200 for acquisitions at the fair

GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a statement released by Antiquity, analysis of pigeon bones from the site of Hala Sultan Tekke, a harbor city on the island of Cyprus, suggests that the birds (Columba livia) were semidomesticated as early as 1400 B.C. This is about 1,000 years earlier than was previously thought based on the remains of domesticated pigeons unearthed in Greece. Pigeons are known to have provided companionship, meat, and fertilizer. “We knew that pigeons must have become domesticated somewhere in the Middle East or Eastern Mediterranean, based mostly on the written record from Egypt, but we had no idea when or how," said Anderson Carter of the University of Groningen. Isotope analysis...

Garments preserved in whalers' burials from the site of Likneset in Norway's Svalbard archipelago SVALBARD, NORWAY—The remains of 20 whalers have been uncovered in a High Arctic cemetery damaged by rapid warming by Lise Loktu of the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research and Elin Therese Brødholt of Oslo University Hospital, according to a Live Science report. The cemetery—known as Likneset, Norwegian for “Corpse Point”—is located on an island in the Svalbard archipelago between the North Pole and the northern coast of Norway. “Early modern Arctic whaling was among Europe’s first large-scale extractive industries, and the labor was highly manual,” Loktu said. The condition of the...

A new residency exclusively meant for Indigenous artists working with neon for the first time is launching as the result of a collaboration between the Walker Youngbird Foundation, a Native-led nonprofit supporting Indigenous artists, and Lite Brite Neon Studio, a neon fabrication workshop based in Kingston, New York. “I have always been fascinated with light […]

Works by famed Canadian figures including Emily Carr, Tom Thomson, Jean Paul Riopelle and Takao Tanabe also notched major results

VANCOUVER, CANADA—Analysis of isotope levels in teeth from more than 100 people who lived between 9,500 and 200 years ago in Kenya and Tanzania suggests that people continued to fish, hunt wild game, and collect plants for food for more than 1,000 years after they began keeping livestock, according to a statement released by the University of British Columbia. Some 5,000 years ago, the variety of the diet consumed by the earliest herders still resembled that of hunter-gatherers, explained Kendra Chritz of the University of British Columbia. “It’s clear that fisher-foragers followed dietary strategies that were situationally specific, or even personalized,” explained Elisabeth Hildebrand of Stony Brook...

Tens of thousands of works were taken and most were never returned, but Museo del Prado identified 166 from its collection and is leading the return efforts

Photography is often touted as the most democratic and accessible medium in the visual arts. Today, the majority of us carry phones equipped with powerful, easy-to-use cameras that capture our lives and the world around us, transforming each of us into a documentarian at a moment’s notice. This omnipresence shapes our understanding of art and culture and often serves as a critical tool for political and social change. The same is true for a forthcoming exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985 transports viewers to the mid-20th century, when the medium rose to prominence not only for artists but also for organizers, activists, and cultural icons....

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You saw them here first. This summer, we spotlight the exciting new talent emerging from the UK’s leading art schools. Graduate shows are where major careers begin, offering an early glimpse of the artists and makers set to shape the future of contemporary visual culture. They also demonstrate the importance of arts education, demonstrating how creativity influences every aspect of the world around us. Discover how the class of 2026 is responding to the defining issues of our time across a wide range of disciplines. Arts University Plymouth: Graduate Shows 2026 | 21 May – 30 July In Plymouth, this season is dedicated to propelling the designers and makers of tomorrow into the creative industries. The...

Harvard Medical School describes scents as “like a key being inserted into a lock” when it comes to our memory. Smells can trigger an emotional response, a vivid recollection or a specific feeling. Consider getting a whiff of a long-forgotten perfume, or a food once cooked by a beloved grandparent. This concept has long been explored by creatives, with olfactory art utilising scent as a way to evoke memories, challenge societal norms and create immersive spaces. Major figures in this space include Anicka Yi, Mike Kelley and Peter de Cupere. Now, artist Keni Li explores this topic in her latest series, Fluid Memory: Wings (2025-2026), which explores how memory can be reconstructed through images, scent...

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, seashells, ceramic, cotton, and more. The small works hover between sculpture and functional object, each reflecting a distinctive sensibility...

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,” […]

LISBON, PORTUGAL—According to a Phys.org report, a nineteenth-century dental bridge resembling three U-shaped teeth was unearthed at the site of a hospital cemetery in northwestern Portugal. The device likely served an aesthetic purpose rather than a functional one, according to Steffi Vassallo of the University of Lisbon. The bridge was found with the remains of an adult woman dated to between 1801 and 1831. Large sections of her face and lower jaw were missing, but the remains indicate that the woman was missing many teeth from her upper jaw at the time of her death. These empty tooth sockets had begun to heal and close, however. Only two of the woman’s own teeth were recovered from the burial....

Burial, Tula, Mexico IGNACIO ZARAGOZA, MEXICO—According to the Greek Reporter, eight burials and 47 ceramic vessels were found in a tomb at Tula, an archaeological zone in central-eastern Mexico, during an investigation conducted by researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History in advance of the Mexico City–Queretaro Passenger Train construction project. Archaeologist Víctor Heredia Guillen said that five shaft-like tombs and other burials were uncovered at a possible residential complex dated to between A.D. 225 and 550. The eight burials were discovered in a shaft tomb on the north side of a residential room. Six of the bodies had been placed in a seated position with...

Every year, there are two major migration events. Birds, insects, fish, and many 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 other...

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...

“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...

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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...

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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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