luca battaglia uses long exposure to turn carousels into light
 
Luca Battaglia takes the familiar carousel and transforms it into a luminous, almost architectural apparition in Ticket non remboursable, an ongoing photographic series rooted in memories of his childhood in Milan. Using long exposures of 20 to 30 seconds, the Italian photographer captures carousels as they rotate through public squares and city streets, allowing horses, decorations, and individual figures to dissolve into bands of light. 
 
Growing up in Milan, Battaglia regularly passed a carousel that has since disappeared. The attraction remained with him as an image connected to childhood, waiting, movement, and the peculiar way memories...

CATCHING SOME SLEEP, QUITE LITERALLY
 
Pokémon Sleep and Japanese hospitality brand NOT A HOTEL are translating one of gaming’s most recognizable objects into inhabitable architecture. Appearing amid the natural landscape of Hokkaido, the Poké Ball-Themed Hotel turns the familiar red-and-white sphere into a place where people can actually spend the night — a rather literal invitation to catch some sleep.
 
The collaboration borrows its premise from the fictional universe, where Poké Balls are conceived as comfortable places for Pokémon to rest. Here, the scale shifts from pocket-sized device to human retreat, with architecture and technology used to create an environment centered on calm, comfort,...

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The Bower’s clustered inflatable forms form shaded public space
 
Brooklyn-based architect and artist Elsa Ponce’s The Bower considers shade as an essential form of urban care. Commissioned by the NYC DOT Art Program for Summer Streets 2026, the temporary installation creates a shaded public space where visitors can rest, draw, and gather beneath a canopy of clustered inflatable forms. The project responds to increasingly hot New York summers and the uneven availability of shade across the city. In neighborhoods such as Sunset Park, East Williamsburg, and Red Hook, where tree canopy can be scarce, parasols and other forms of sun protection have become part of everyday life. Shade is free, but access to it...

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In April of 1987, when Reaganism was running amok and Henry Kissinger was fiddling with world affairs like a puppet master from hell, a relatively unknown 31-year-old Chilean artist named Alfredo Jaar staged his billboard installation A Logo for America smack dab in the heart of Times Square. It instantly became one of the most discussed works of political art in the contemporary canon. Appearing between ads for tomato sauce and a Mexican restaurant, the 42-second LED animation bewildered New Yorkers with the message “This Is Not America” superimposed on a map of the United States, followed by an image of the US flag with the text, “This Is Not America’s Flag.” Next, the “R” in America shifted...

In a Truth Social post criticizing the Smithsonian Institution's “ideological activism” on Friday, September 11, President Donald Trump called on the National Museum of American History (NMAH) to erect a 30-foot-tall statue of George Washington and develop a five-year exhibition on “America’s Greatest Hero.”In Trump's eyes, the colossal statue would ideally replace José de Rivera's kinetic sculpture “Infinity” (1967), the United States government's first abstract art commission, which has stood outside the NMAH entrance facing the National Mall for almost 60 years. Deriding the late American abstractionist's stainless steel Möbius strip, which rotates on its axis every...

branching structure translates the tree into a light installation
 
Tree of Light by Raza Zahid Atelier is a lighting installation and gathering point at SOS Children’s Village in Lahore, Pakistan. Its branching structure raises luminous globes above a marble base that doubles as informal seating. Most evenings, the installation emits a warm glow, while programmed color sequences introduce a different atmosphere during celebrations, festivals, and moments of recognition.
 
The installation was conceived as both a source of illumination and a social object within the landscape. Located beside the library, it provides a place where children can gather, sit, read, talk, and play, while also creating a focal...

On Saturday, a few days after the highly anticipated Bayeux Tapestry exhibition opened at the British Museum, the group Energy Embargo for Palestine staged a protest in the museum’s Great Hall. The protest was related to the museum’s long-running relationship with British Petroleum and its collaboration with Igor Tulchinsky. Last week, Middle East Eye revealed that the Belarusian billionaire spent $6.8 million to support the artwork’s journey from France to London. Tulchinsky also funded a yurt in a community center in Efrat, an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank that is now under UK sanctions. In addition to the British Museum severing its ties to BP and renaming its BP Lecture...

Three decades after it was stolen from a zoo under the cover of night, a 19th-century bronze sculpture was recovered from the United States and returned to its rightful home in the north of France, where it is now on display at the Musée de Picardie in Amiens. According to a press release issued by the London-based Art Loss Register (ALR), Alfred Lepère’s Faune Chasseur was identified as part of due diligence preceding a proposed sale by one of ALR’s auction-house clients. The sculpture was commissioned by the French State in 1863 and is owned by the state and listed in its national collection managed by Centre National des Arts Plastiques. It was showcased at the Amiens Zoo before it was stolen in 1993....

Missing for decades, a Gertrude Abercrombie painting will find itself some collector’s prize this October at Freeman’s. Of the lots scheduled for Freeman’s postwar and contemporary art auction, Alderman Merriam’s Shells (1951), by the celebrated Chicagoan artist, surely has the best story. According to the house, the enigmatic still life of seashells scattered in a deep void was spotted this summer at a “picked-over” estate sale in Michigan. Hung in a corner of a dark hallway, it carried a $30 price tag and a nearly overlooked signature in the corner reading “Abercrombie.” “Uncertain but intrigued,” its finder brought the canvas to the Milwaukee Art Museum, which was then hosting an...

For over three decades, the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) has been a New York City hub for creativity and support for artists and curators from around the world. Over 2,000 artists and curators from more than 105 countries, including the United States, have undertaken residencies at ISCP. On September 30, join Hyperallergic members, contributors, and staff for this exclusive studio event with ISCP's NYC-based Ground Floor residents. Meet with the seven participating artists in their studios as they discuss their practice and work.ISCP Ground Floor residents include Frank WANG Yefeng, Zoë Pulley, Keli Safia Maksud, Maya Jeffereis, Alicia Grullón, Erick Hernandez, ​and Kara...

The Etruscan painted tombs of Tarquinia, Italy, dating from around the 7th to the 1st century BCE, have long been celebrated for their vivid iconography and remarkable state of preservation. Now, archaeologists have used AI to examine how sight and sound may have affected Etruscan mourners of the time. Focusing on two 5th-century BCE painted tombs at Tarquinia, the Tomba del Gallo and the Tomba dei Demoni Azzurri (“Tomb of the Blue Demon”) as case studies, researchers used acoustic science and AI modeling to recreate each tomb’s distinct experiential strategy. Their findings suggest that these tombs were intended not simply to memorialize the dead but to create an ambient experience for the living....

LONDON — James McNeill Whistler is at once ubiquitous and obscure. Born in 1834 in Massachusetts, he spent some of his childhood in St. Petersburg, Russia before moving to Paris and then London to study art. While he recalls the motifs and methods of European heavyweights such as Courbet, Renoir, Singer-Sargent, and Constable, Whistler’s work diverges in its technical progression. Whistler prioritized aesthetic effect over iconographic content, confining each piece to a limited chromatic palette in search of the sublime and forgoing faithful representational accuracy. Like music composed primarily for aural pleasure, his work avoids sharp or jarring notes in color, tone, or composition for aesthetic...

PHILADELPHIA — The fate of a Keith Haring mural in Philadelphia may be sealed this week in a decision that could also set a precedent for how to protect public art in the City of Brotherly Love.At the height of his career in the 1980s, Keith Haring joined up with 14 high school students to paint a mural in a quiet pocket of South Philadelphia. The artist intentionally passed over better-trafficked areas of the city, instead selecting a wall on a residential building in the historically Black neighborhood of Point Breeze. A year after painting his legendary “Crack is Wack” mural in New York City, and three years before he died from AIDS-related complications, Haring drew bold, black outlines of his...

President Donald Trump has demanded that the Smithsonian remove what he described as a “strange modernist sculpture” from outside the National Museum of American History and install a thirty-foot-high “Colossus statue” of George Washington in its stead. “He is easily America’s Greatest Hero. Without him, our Country and our Freedoms wouldn’t exist,” wrote Trump in […]

Duped into buying more than $6.7 million worth of fake Andy Warhol paintings and prints, real estate investor Richard Perlman and his family have launched a multinational lawsuit against the players they say are complicit in the alleged scam. Filed on September 9 in a Miami state court and first reported by the Wall Street Journal, the lawsuit accuses roughly half a dozen individuals and companies across Florida, Philadelphia, and Peru of acting as “suppliers, fake authenticators and distributors” within an elaborate forgery network. The lawsuit traces the alleged journey of the illicit works to Miami—from the painter employed in Peru, through their smuggling into the US, to the construction of a false...

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a wave breaks across the vatican library
 
A giant black-and-white wave by JR now stretches across the sixteenth-century facade of the Vatican Apostolic Library. DILUVIUM runs roughly 70 meters across the wall facing the Cortile del Belvedere, catching the water at the instant before it seems ready to crash into the architecture.
 
Unveiled on September 14th, 2026, the site-specific installation opens AQVA, the first exhibition in the library’s five-year Catastrophe and Wonder cycle, and draws its image from Gustave Doré’s 1866 illustration of the biblical flood.
 
The idea began with a very practical fear. ‘The library at the Vatican came to see me because, for them, water represents their biggest...

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York is terminating its MFA program in photography, video, and related media. Launched in 1988, the program will wind down at the end of the 2027–28 academic school year, allowing those currently enrolled to gain their degrees. The announcement, made in an August email to students currently […]

From elemental materials like alabaster, quartz, garnet, and bronze, Debra Baxter assembles jewel-like sculptures that explore consciousness, nature, anatomy, and spirituality. For her most recent body of work on view now in Ascent at Roq La Rue, the artist meanders into a more mystical side of history, infused with a tinge of punk and, somewhat paradoxically, a meditative calm. Baxter contracted Covid in January 2022 that progressed into long Covid, during which she spent more time recuperating than being able to work with the heavy-duty equipment and materials characteristic of her practice. The sculptures on view in this show were initiated five years ago. However, her period of recovery, which she...

The Musée du Louvre in Paris has appointed French art historian and curator Vincent Delieuvin to lead its Department of Paintings. A specialist in Renaissance art, in particular the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Delieuvin joined the Louvre in 2006 as a curator of sixteenth-century Italian painting and has since organized a number of major […]

A pair of oil paintings by Eastman Johnson stolen from separate New York City galleries in 1978 have been recovered, thanks to an eagle-eyed art dealer. The Long Island-based dealer Brandon Levine spotted the works in a private estate collection and contacted Sandra Germain of the Connecticut-based Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, who confirmed that they […]

Frederich Kunath describes that he aims to make his paintings “feel like songs.” The logo for the band Oasis turns up in a top corner of “Sometimes I’m Almost There,” and there is a kind of surreal, set-like quality to his vibrant, cinematic works. “Kunath explores themes of distance and (re)location, where a longing emerges between the place you’re in and the place you’re destined to be,” says a statement for his exhibition The Nearest Faraway Place, presented by Pace in Seoul. The artist taps into art history with compositions redolent of the tradition of Weltlandschaft, or “the world landscape,” which can be traced to the Northern Renaissance. There’s also a strong nod to the Hudson...

Revisiting the sculptor's provocations against "consumerist ambiguity" and rigid intellectualism

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The most reflective element on Earth, silver has transformed the ways in which humans perceive, record, and understand the world. Presented on the occasion of the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s milestone 25th anniversary, A Material Inheritance employs silver as both subject and lens, inviting reflection on the institution’s past while considering the evolving future of contemporary craft. Silver is the material through which cultures have learned to see and remember themselves. Its exceptional optical and metallurgical properties made possible advances in mirror-making, photography, and scientific instrumentation, while its weight, density, and malleability established it as a prime medium for...

Through brilliant oranges and moody shades of blue, Los Angeles-based artist Roberta Gentry renders vivid, balanced compositions that, as she says, take the senses seriously. Gentry has long been interested in the relationship between the constructed and the natural, cultivating abstract, biomorphic forms scaffolded by tall columns. Gravitating toward symmetry and restricted palettes, Gentry paints rhythmic pieces that adhere to an underlying grid. Every painting is the result of multiple layers of thinned acrylic, which build into subtle gradients that dissipate across the canvas. “The Rose Lattice” (2026), acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches The paintings shown here are part of that artist’s upcoming...

A figure appears to have been subsumed by a bookcase, and another is swathed in a green sleeping bag beneath a makeshift tent. Whether navigating a bathtub fitted with oars or sleeping in a bed while stacked like pancakes, the figures in Sara Anstis’ atmospheric drawings are immersed in curious activities. Hints of mysterious narratives, nursery rhymes, art historical iconography, and ancient symbolism make their way into enchanting and peculiar tableaux. Anstis conjures a timeless air in the small-scale works of her solo show Pastels at Olney Gleason. Over the past couple of years, her palette has shifted to more muted, autumnal tones in contrast to her earlier works that featured vibrant, saturated hues...

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Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...

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For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
The post Harriet Mena Hill Brings Crumbling Concrete Back To Life first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...

 
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

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 […]
The post Future Relics: The Art of Morgan Sorensen first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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 […]
The post The Disconcertingly Honest Self-Portrait Sculptures of Monica Piloni first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

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...

 
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here. We also mark an...