While Robert Musil’s century-old adage that “there is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument” still rings true in some ways, many monuments today feel more visible than ever. Statues of Cecil Rhodes and Robert E. Lee have collapsed under the pressures of public protest, exposing monuments for what they really are: flashpoints where histories are negotiated and mythologies are formed. In Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape (2025), art historian Cat Dawson identifies the roots of contemporary artists’ confrontation of monumentality by locating its watershed moment. Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety” (2014), a 75-foot (~22.9-meter) sugar sculpture,...

Summer Moraes reflects on the legacy of late trans artist Greer Lankton, whose hauntingly beautiful dolls offer companionship to the misfits, in Dazed:For Lankton, dolls were more than just kitschy objects – they were powerful, emotional extensions of herself. “(My dolls) are all freaks. Outsiders. Untouchables,” she once said. “They’re like biographies – the kind of people you’d like to know about. Really interesting and fucked up.”Lankton’s dolls were born as much from necessity as from imagination. “She wasn’t allowed to have a doll as a kid,” Monroe tells Dazed. “So, she made them – first with flowers, then with socks. Then she realised she could bend hangers to create arms so...

Welcome to the 313th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists paint to the sounds of washing machines and commune with ancestors while they work.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Mieke Marple, Los Angeles, CaliforniaHow long have you been working in this space?My garage? Since right before my daughter was born, so almost three years.Describe an average day in your studio.It looks like me doing laundry while masking off a painting or running the dishwasher while airbrushing some final painting...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.After Much Ado, Alma Allen Gets the Venice GigAfter several, shall we say, setbacks, the United States finally has a representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale. Alma Allen will explore "the concept of 'elevation'" as a "physical manifestation of form," according to the Department of State. OK. Read our full report here. We're Not All Fam at PhAMWelcome to this week's installment of "What in the World Is Happening at the Philadelphia Art Museum?" Daniel Weiss, whose name might ring a bell due to his previous gig as director of The Met,...

Feminine Literacy: a show rooted in empathy, systems, and craft
 
At Custom Lane in Edinburgh, Doyenne Studio presents Feminine Literacy, an exhibition that repositions the word feminine as a design methodology with real systemic weight. Rather than associating it with style or softness, the curators describe it as ‘an approach that is collaborative, decentralized, non-linear, fluid, empathetic, and holistic,’ a definition that threads through the work of the 28 women and non-binary international designers featured across fashion, product, material innovation, and system design.
 
Running until December 7th, 2025, the showcase positions feminine literacy as a critical, future-oriented lens for working...

Espace Gabrielle Chanel: Shanghai’s new art library
 
Chanel and the Power Station of Art (PSA) museum unveil a major new cultural destination in Shanghai: the Espace Gabrielle Chanel, mainland China’s first public library dedicated entirely to contemporary art and design. The 1,700-square-meter space, located on the transformed third floor of PSA, anchors the latest phase of the maison’s long-term partnership with the museum. Conceived by Japanese architect Kazunari Sakamoto, the library turns reading into a spatial experience; its signature feature is a slow, ascending path that folds bookshelves directly into a continuous ramp, encouraging visitors to wander, pause, and discover at their own...

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Greta Thunberg and several members of the Extinction Rebellion environmental group turned Venice’s Grand Canal bright green on Monday to protest what they view as the world’s slow progress in transitioning away from fossil fuels.They dropped non-toxic fluorescein dye into the canal from boats, making it look like a radioactive, toxic soup. The stunt was one of series of protests at lakes, fountains, and waterways across 10 Italian cities in the wake of the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil. Thunberg and her fellow activists also unfurled a banner reading “Stop Ecocide” from Venice’s Rialto Bridge to highlight “the massive effects of climate collapse.”Dressed in red...

The Monkey King at San Francisco Opera combines spectacle and sentiment.

Zorg (Yifan Jing) (b. 1998) is a London-based visual artist whose practice is grounded in field research. A graduate in illustration from Goldsmiths, University of London, he investigates the intersections of migration, cultural symbolism and collective memory. His work has been exhibited internationally – in New York, Paris, Tbilisi, Las Vegas, Shanghai and London – in shows that highlight his ongoing engagement with communities and the ways in which environments shape, and are shaped by, the people who inhabit them. A major work to highlight is Clover (2024). This intricately designed, multi-paned window sculpture is the result of long-term research in a diverse area of East London, home to communities...

Legislation allows non-national museums established as charities to transfer property on a “moral basis” depending on its value

The announcement follows a new report which revealed a sharp decrease in the teaching of art history to UK teenagers

What happens when we view the world from a different angle? What can we learn by stepping outside of our own perspective, and into someone else’s shoes? These five exhibitions encourage audiences to do just that. The shows consider how traditions of photography have built and perpetuated narratives that exclude and erase queer people of colour; reveal how social, religious and political belief systems shape the very fabric of our towns and cities; and consider how diasporic communities use language to connect with places they no longer inhabit. Elsewhere, Jeff Wall reckons with the major concerns of contemporary life, using large-scale, still lifes to draw attention to our most pressing problems. Similarly,...

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Concept electric solo jetbike by LEO flight has no propellers
 
LEO Flight introduces the concept electric Solo JetBike, a hovering personal air vehicle for pilots without a license. Described as a one-person electric aircraft, it operates at low altitude and uses electric propulsion instead of propellers. The vehicle, which follows the still-concept LEO Coupe car-like aircraft, runs on what the team calls a proprietary electric-jet propulsion system, which uses multiple electric jets. They’re small and enclosed within the frame, as the company hopes this can eliminate propellers entirely.
 
The concept electric Solo JetBike by LEO Flight measures 6.5 feet by 6.5 feet, compact enough to fit in the...

drift presents a triptych of light across jubail island, abu dhabi
 
DRIFT brings three new large-scale light installations to Manar Abu Dhabi, transforming Jubail Island into an illuminated landscape of shifting wind, data, and memory. Part of the outdoor festival’s second edition, running until January 4th, 2026, the works are staged within mangroves, tidal waterways, and open sky, allowing technology and environment to operate as a single system.
 
Across Jubail Island, the three installations introduce different modes of engagement. Whispers unfolds at ground level within the grassland, Unfold operates as an interactive AI-driven environment responding to visitors’ heartbeats, and Wind of Change...

Through large-scale tapestries of fringed strips of fabric, Abdoulaye Konaté explores the contemporary relevance of ancient signs and symbols. The Malian artist began working with textiles in the 1990s, when it became clear to him how prevalent they are in our everyday lives, from clothing and home goods to tools and more. This early interest began what’s become a research-driven artistic practice, and today, he layers long, stitched pieces of Bazin and Kente fabrics into dynamic, largely abstract works. Konaté and his team create each monumental tapestry entirely by hand, from the dyeing process to cutting and stitching. The final layout typically occurs on the studio floor after the artist sketches in...

Modular Residential Block Integrates Gardens into Its Form
 
Lisi Garden House by Architects of Invention is a seven-story residential building developed using a notionally modular framework in which all components, though not full volumetric modules, are fabricated offsite. This approach introduces an uncommon construction method in Georgia, where offsite production remains limited. The design references James Wines’ ‘Highrise of Homes’ and Brodsky & Utkin’s ‘Columbarium Habitable,’ adopting the idea of stacked houses with integrated gardens. Living room modules alternate between oval and rectangular geometries, generating a vertical rhythm across the gridded facade. As an adaptation of Wines’...

Sonnabend Collection in Mantua—home to the collection of the late dealer Ileana Sonnabend—includes works by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol as well as contemporary artists

John-Paul Stonard argues the case for honouring Constable at London's soon-to-be expanded National Gallery

Photography has a unique capacity to make the invisible visible, and to illuminate truths about the world and ourselves that often go unnoticed. It documents reality whilst simultaneously interpreting it, acting as both witness and storyteller. The 2025 Royal Photographic Society Awards, the world’s longest-running photography prize, celebrated this power, recognising photographers whose work challenges boundaries and transforms how we see. From experimental landscapes to socially engaged portraiture, the winners demonstrate the breadth of contemporary photography and its capacity to engage, provoke and inspire. At the forefront is Susan Derges, awarded the RPS Centenary Medal for her outstanding...

In the final film of our MPB: The Next Shot series, cinematographer and director Theo Tennant reflects on the pivotal role of his first professional camera, a Blackmagic URSA, in shaping his BAFTA Cymru-winning documentary Frontier Town. The camera became more than a tool; it was a companion that granted access to a close-knit, community and, in turn, gave Theo the confidence to step into his identity as a filmmaker. His story explores the relationship between artist and equipment: what it means to outgrow the tools that once defined you, the liberation of passing them on and how changing gear mirrors creative evolution.  A: If you’ve ever sold your kit, what did you sell and why?  TT: I’ve sold various...

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By the time London dealer Patrick Matthiesen realised the person he had handed “Mother and Child on a Hammock” over to was not who he claimed to be, it was too late

 
Who doesn’t love a good photo book? To flick through the pages, be enlightened, educated, distracted and absorbed into another world through another’s eyes? Totally fantastic!
We’re here to share our Photobook Favourites – a selection of our favourite photography books recommended by the Shutter Hub community, an archive of titles we’ve enjoyed, and a reference point for you to explore.
The Colour of Money and Trees, Tony Dočekal, VOID
The Colour of Money and Trees, Tony Dočekal, VOID
The photographs in ‘The Color of Money and Trees’ were made by Dutch photographer Tony Dočekal during several visits to Arizona and California. While volunteering for an organisation working with the unhoused,...

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It's a weird time to be grateful. Over the past year, President Trump rolled back protections for Native lands and sovereignty while attempting to erase entire chapters from American history; namely, the ones where White people commit unspeakable injustices. As we recoil at the return of monuments honoring figures better left forgotten, we find solace in the members of our art community who, against all odds, are trying to do the right thing. This Thanksgiving, we're celebrating 25 things that bring us joy, great and small: gorgeous sculptures by Jeffrey Gibson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, long-awaited repatriations, no-strings-attached grants for artists, gallery dogs, and more. —Valentina...

For the past three days, Los Angeles–based artist Brittany Fanning has posted the same picture to her Instagram grid. It shows two grinning men in double-breasted suits, complete with pocket squares. In her caption, she identifies them as brothers Jackson Navin and Matthew Navin, of London-based gallery Pictorum Art Group. In a separate posting, Fanning says that she is still owed money from the gallery related to a group show she participated in three years ago.  During the course of her campaign, Fanning said she learned that other artists are claiming to be in a similar situation and have also not received payment from Pictorum. One of these artists, Finn Johnson, received a court judgment ordering...

Lohaus Sominsky, the Munich-based gallery founded by Ingrid Lohaus and Sofia Sominsky, will open its first New York space next month at 62 White Street in Tribeca. The debut exhibition, featuring new paintings and a site-specific installation by Berlin-based artist Charlie Stein, will open December 11—just days after the gallery participates in Art Basel Miami Beach for the first time. The expansion comes three years after the gallery established its Munich headquarters, where it has mounted more than 18 exhibitions with a roster that includes international names such as Vera Molnár, Phoebe Derlee, and others across Europe and the Americas. Their current Munich exhibition “Alive” spotlights New...

South Korean painter and sculptor Lee Ufan, a key figure of the Mono-ha movement, has been named the winner of the thirty-second Wolfgang Hahn Prize, presented by the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The museum, which sponsors the prize, will put €100,000 (about $115,000) in member donations toward purchasing work […]

A Renoir painting that has been missing for a century sold for $2 million at an auction in Paris.  The painting, titled L’enfant et ses jouets – Gabrielle et le files de l’artiste, Jean (The Child and His Toys – Gabrielle and the son’s artist, Jean), depicts Renoir’s young son Jean playing with his nursemaid Gabrielle, the scene captured with palpable warmth. Created roughly around 1910, had never been published or exhibited, yet came to auction in remarkably good condition, requiring no restoration work. Joron-Derem offered the work in its Tableaux Modernes sale at Hôtel Drouot in Paris on November 25. An international collector secured the work for a hammer price of €1.45 million ($1.68...

Two curatorial teams have been named the winners of the Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025. Organized by Hyundai Motor Company, the prize was established to support “the evolving role of curators” as they consider “pressing contemporary issues, in connection with the contexts of Asia.” After an open call in July, which received over 160 exhibition proposals for Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, give teams were shortlisted to participate in a curatorial program overseen by an international jury panel. The program offered one-on-one mentorship and a research trip to Beijing to supporting the final exhibition proposals. The jury then selected two of the five teams as the final winners. Seoul–based curators Hyejin and...

Across Tokyo, museums and galleries are taking up the fraught legacy of World War II

“I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that our perceived reality is shaped by our minds and reflecting our inner world,” says artist Michelle Blancke, whose ethereal photographs of trees, glens, and foliage invite us into a familiar yet uncanny world. Her lens-based practice explores themes of interdependence, consciousness, and concealment, especially through the subject of nature. Blancke’s vivid Secret Garden series comprises a total of five sub-categories: Realm, Ascent, Essence, Veins, and Origin. Whether capturing the waxy surface of an intricately veined leaf or the way vines create shadowy veils over gnarled trees, she’s interested in relationships between “transformation, mysticism, and...

Wayne White’s pictures start with thrift store paintings... White seizes on a startup surface that was a middle class decorator staple in the ‘50s and ‘60s.. read Mat Gleason's article on the artist by clicking above!
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Carmen Dominguez is working with gift tissue as transparencies. At 56, they're doing more woven paper art, experimenting with combining traditional home crafts with abstract imagery. They're exploring the themes of reconciling historical alienation with contemporary reality. They're influenced by absurdist humor—DADA, found art, art brut, home crafting, and graffiti. They must call themselves "entry-level" but they have 20 years of creating art at home. Self-taught. Southern California, urban...

In 2024, while Timo Fahler was out for a run in Los Angeles, he came across a discarded bedspring. It lingered in his studio for months until one day, its thirteen rows of springs revealed themselves as the red and white stripes of the American flag. It also turned out to be the last work he made in the U.S. before he and his family relocated to The Netherlands. Fahler’s slouched “flag” is one of a number of recent stained glass sculptures on view in his solo exhibition Terminal Classic at Sebastian Gladstone that reference major changes in the artist’s personal life and the U.S.’s tumultuous socio-political climate. Time becomes slippery as he taps into imagery that is both contemporary and ancient....

The Biennale's eighth edition focuses on the city-state's idiosyncrasies

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Grand Tier Grab Bag features a complete performance of Ernest Chausson's Poème de l'amour et de la mer ahead of a particular year for both its soloist and conductor.

Cristina De Middel’s Journey to the Center, currently on view at the International Centre for the Image, Dublin, until 23 December, presents a compelling exploration of migration, myth and human resilience. Presented by PhotoIreland, the exhibition marks her return to the city a decade after the Irish premiere of The Afronauts. The series merges documentary photography with constructed imagery and archival material to create narratives that are at once political, poetic and conceptually playful. Rather than presenting migration solely as a crisis, De Middel reframes it as a journey of courage, endurance and imagination. Her approach encourages viewers to rethink the stories often circulated by media and...

The production is based on the Elisabeth Fritzl story, and it really made me reconsider this opera's fairy tale storyline.

Experience design firm Murmur Ring, in partnership with Empathy and the Institute of Design, invites artists, designers, makers, and creatives of all kinds to join the Reclaiming Value: Sacred Valley Design Immersion from June 15 to 19, 2026, in Peru’s Sacred Valley. The Colossal team previously joined Murmur Ring for a transformative week-long immersion in Oaxaca, Mexico, and looks forward to joining this excursion, as well. This is not a tourist program. Mumur Ring’s Immersions are creative exchanges born from years of research and relationship-building. Intimate site visits with Peruvian makers and innovators offer rare, behind-the-scenes access to the perspectives, techniques, and community-centered...

The Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM) has filed a civil suit against former director and CEO Sasha Suda, accusing her of theft. The filing, which claims that Suda “misappropriated funds from the Museum and lied to cover up her theft,” is the latest twist in a saga that began earlier this month when the institution, until […]

A vibrant new pavilion rises to meet the square’s picturesque trees in Cradle of Country Music Park in Knoxville, Tennessee, connecting the city’s Old Town and its theater district. Made from tens of thousands of individual pieces of painted aluminum, the vivid “Pier 865” provides both a resting place and a vantage point in a reinvigorated public square. The reptilian sculpture is the work of Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY, continuing the designer’s interest in high-tech, large-scale installations that involve meticulously assembled elements. Conceived digitally, the structure has a bold, futuristic quality that looks exactly like a 3D model made real—one can imagine its pixel-like pieces puzzling...

Stephen Friedman Gallery has announced that it will shutter its New York outpost at the end of February 2026. The gallery, which had moved to its TriBeCa space just over two years ago, will continue to operate its London flagship, in business since 1995, and has said it will maintain its full artist roster. Stephen […]

"Even though I would hope to be remembered as a portrait artist—canonizing the image of Indigenous people within art history—I am constantly set upon side quests,” says multidisciplinary Canadian artist Wally Dion.. read the full article by clicking above.
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Cartoonist Jay Howell is "looking forward to the next thing, always". Click above to read the full article.
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Vincent Lombardo pays poetic tribute to the 60-year-long career of Robert Wilson.

As Messiah season begins, Christopher Corwin reports on two of Handel’s forays into the Old Testament.

At 75, Cindy Zimmerman is developing a workshop on making artist books for Banned Books Week at San Diego Central Library. They're also working on Mobile Monument, rolling activist art for protests, parades, and exhibitions, amplifying words purged during the first weeks of the Trump administration. They're more clear now that they decide what to do based on the guidance of their inner voice. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point in their life?  Too little space. Someone...

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
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Up to a year ago, E.M. Miller's medium was food. Now it's raw canvas. At 50, he's a former actor turned musician turned chef turned artist standing at yet another fucking crossroads and deciding if he continues down this rabbit hole of art or not. How's his work different now than it was before 50?  A weaker person or perhaps a lesser experienced person would say the unknown, but he's used to not asking those kinds of questions. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point? He...

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foto credit Susanna Andreini Susanna Andreini works with the invisible realms—concrete with Elemental Beings. At 60, the stunning results of her recent paintings, the absolutely unexpected colors, motifs, and expression touched her in a very deep way and encouraged her to explore this way of artistic expression even deeper. She's exploring her connection to the Elemental Beings, offering them her canvas as their stage. They dance on it, try out different forms, sometimes as lines, sometimes...

GWAR was never an ordinary rock band. And in the recent documentary This Is GWAR, director Scott Barber digs into the past and present of the music and art collective that simultaneously defied categorization while infiltrating late twentieth century pop culture and continues to entertain fans today with heavy metal and elaborate—even gory—stage shows. Read Liz Ohanesian's full article by clicking above.
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There’s just one week left to submit your work for Shutter Hub Editions’ publication The Colour Library: Blue!
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives.
Our first edition is devoted to blue. A colour of depth and distance. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue evokes calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow. Delicate cornflowers, robust denim, precious jewels, and the deepest ocean. From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes,...

“When I learned that there was a technique called honkadori, I thought it was interesting,” says Watanabe. “It seemed like an invasion or challenge to the idea of Western art and original works.” Read the full article by clicking above.
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