Spikes, fans, florets, waves, and other characteristics of marine creatures continue to shape the work of Lisa Stevens. The Bristol-based artist’s vibrant practice revolves around ceramic sculptures inspired by sea urchins, coral, nudibranchs, and other underwater organisms. Each piece is unique, with numerous colorful glazes and textures, and they often take on a fantastical quality, incorporating hybrid features that conjure associations with celestial objects, anatomy, and other facets of nature. Find more on Stevens’ Instagram, plus watch clay sculpting tutorials on YouTube. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as...

louis vuitton stages objets nomades inside palazzo serbelloni 
 
At Milan Design Week 2026, Louis Vuitton transforms Palazzo Serbelloni into a layered exhibition that bridges decorative arts history with contemporary design. The presentation introduces the latest Objets Nomades collection alongside a curated selection of the House’s historic trunks, unfolding as a sequence of immersive interiors defined by saturated color palettes and scenographic staging. Moving through the palace, visitors encounter a narrative that traces Louis Vuitton’s evolution from Art Deco craftsmanship to present-day collectible design.
 
The exhibition extends into the courtyard with a monumental rug installation inspired by...

In its most forceful condemnation yet of the world’s greatest art exhibition, the European Union said it planned to cut funding to the Venice Biennale, which will host this year host Russia’s first pavilion since the nation’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The pavilion has faced a bitter, negative response from European leaders and artists alike. Even participants in the main exhibition have called for the exclusion of Russia, with dozens of artists in that portion of the Biennale signing an open letter that demands that the show kick out that nation, Israel, and the US, all of which are labeled “current regimes committing war crimes.” The Biennale has maintained that it cannot do so, since any state...

Rosa Feola, still scheduled for a run of performances as Violetta in New York this spring, is the subject of this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag.

In folklore, twilight is often interpreted as a liminal, even magical time during which spirits emerge in the transition between light and dark. It’s sometimes even seen as a period when extra caution is advised, as will-o’-the-wisps, shapeshifters, and fae may try to influence people in their path. For artist Nicholas Moegly, nightfall sets the scene for neighborhoods and quiet streets in which curious creatures roam, and lights flicker on in houses, signaling the end of the day. Many of Moegly’s works possess a dreamy realism along the lines of photographer Todd Hido’s Houses at Night or the illustrations of children’s book author Chris Van Allsburg. There is both a timelessness and a sense that...

The Reform-run council sold the public work back to the artist for an undisclosed sum

Sanya Kantarovsky talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

What I love most about Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Lilacs" is how beautifully it captures the quiet intimacy at the heart of art song.

MoMA PS1's massive survey of local artists, Greater New York, happens just once every five years, so it's only natural that the show would stir strong emotions ... including ambivalence. Read all about the works Hyperallergic loved, didn't, and couldn't make up their minds about, with contributions from Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara, Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian, Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang, and Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar.In news, American-French sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud speaks about her decision to decline an invitation to represent the US at the Venice Biennale as the pavilion — and its murky, Trump-friendly commissioning entity — come under intensifying scrutiny. As a...

Today, we’re celebrating Earth Day, an annual event that promotes environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970, the movement annually mobilises 1 billion people across 190 countries towards taking positive climate action. The 2026 theme is Our Power, Our Planet, reflecting the fundamental truth that “environmental progress doesn’t depend on any single administration or election. It’s sustained by daily actions of communities, educators, workers and families protecting where they work and live.” It’s an admirable aim, often reflected in the work of artists and creatives around the world. We’re spotlighting five exhibition that highlight the beauty of our environment, as well as the urgent...

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‘CERAMICS FORGED IN LIGHT’ INSTALLATION AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026
 
Snøhetta and VitrA Bathrooms and Tiles have joined forces for Milan Design Week 2026 to present ‘Ceramics Forged in Light,’ an installation that challenges our perception of industrial waste. Occupying a central position within the Interni ‘MATERIAE’ exhibition, the project marks VitrA Bathroom and Tiles’ twentieth year in Milan by subverting the traditional lifecycle of ceramic.
 
The space, designed in collaboration with the transdisciplinary studio, functions as a sensory path, using water, light, and clay to physically guide visitors through the different stages of ceramic production — from its raw, liquid origins to its...

As well as the renovated and expanded Los Angeles County Museum of Art, here are some of the art and culture projects to look forward to

tools become luminous artworks
 
Artist Pia Hinz approaches stained glass through objects that carry a strong association with labor and use. Ropes, shopping carts, traffic cones, and agricultural components appear across her sculptural work, each translated through colored glass using traditional techniques. The forms remain immediately legible, which keeps their original context present even as the material shifts.
 
This choice sets up a direct contrast. These are objects built for pressure, repetition, and durability. In glass, they hold a different kind of presence. The outlines stay intact, but the expectations around weight and handling change, which affects how the viewer reads them in space.
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With scant testimony from the man himself, the book relies on the views of others

The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin has digitised hundreds of works that were held in a tower for safety but were l

sharing futures through food at milan design week 2026
 
As Milan Design Week 2026 stretches across the city, CIVICITY by Nieuwe Instituut grounds it in a shared act: writing and eating dreams through pizza. Presented with cheFare and curated by Collective Works, the initiative positions itself within Redesigning Design Weeks, a long-term exploration of how design can operate beyond spectacle and into sustained local engagement.
 
Designer Pete Fung invites visitors to ‘eat their dreams’ through the Pizzeria of Promises, a mobile oven developed during his residency in Chiaravalle. Together with unaccompanied minors from Fratelli San Francesco, pizzas become carriers of personal ambitions, written,...

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Ai Weiwei needs no introduction. For more than three decades, the artist has occupied a singular position at the intersection of aesthetics and activism, reshaping the possibilities of contemporary art through an unwavering commitment to political truth. Works such as Sunflower Seeds (2010) and Remembering (2009) have become touchstones of 21st-century practice, confronting mass production, state violence and collective memory with both poetic restraint and monumental force. His 81-day secret detention by Chinese authorities in 2011 marked a defining rupture — one that transformed personal experience into a sustained artistic inquiry into surveillance, control and resistance. Since then, Ai has continued...

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In Paris, fashion brand Massimo Dutti presents its creative universe through an exclusive pop-up store, conceived as a temporary environment rather than a conventional retail format. Developed as a ten-day intervention beginning April 17, the project operates through a clear spatial concept in the form of an installation that translates the brand’s values into palpable scenography.
 
The pop-up is structured as a composed interior with garments, furniture, artworks, and editorial elements. Rather than separating product from context, the spatial design positions the SS26 Limited Edition Collection within a broader visual and cultural framework,...

A survey of New York is an impossible premise. It’s simply too big, too unwieldy — but that’s also what makes it so relentlessly, aggravatingly, and beautifully itself. MoMA PS1’s Greater New York tries its hand at the tall task of capturing the city’s art world — and it is a world unto itself — exhibiting more than 150 works by more than 50 artists. Below, we’ve selected around 20 artists whose work we feel strongly about, whether because we loved it, because we didn’t, or because we’re still puzzling through it. There’s some disagreement between us here. Of course there is — this is New York, home of eight million stubbornly held opinions. What fun would it be otherwise?Check out...

By partnering with museums and public spaces, TONO offers a distributed alternative to institutional programming

NEON, the Athens-based initiative founded by leading collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, will conclude its activities later this year, “after 14 years of activity, having fulfilled its cultural and social mission,” according to a release. NEON’s final project began last year when the first of three exhibitions by Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz opened at the Acropolis Museum in May, while the second exhibition opened last October. The trilogy of exhibitions, collectively titled “Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures,” were presented in collaboration with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, the Acropolis Museum, and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens. The last of these will involve a new commission...

When the Trump administration removed exhibits about slavery from a Philadelphia historic park earlier this year, the city met the federal government with a defiant lawsuit. Among the targeted displays was an artwork portraying Ona Judge, who fled enslavement from George and Martha Washington.While the legal battle over the work advances, a Philadelphia cultural festival plans to unveil a sprawling temporary monument next month commemorating Ona Judge’s escape from the captivity of the United States’s first presidential family in 1796. As part of ArtPhilly, a new festival founded by Philadelphia Museum of Art trustee Katherine Sachs, New York-based conceptual artist indira allegra will debut a trio of...

The economy of Peru’s Sacred Valley has long been entwined with the seasons. Rural communities typically grow crops and raise livestock to sustain themselves and to barter with others, a process that necessitates an attunement with nature, its cycles, and how these patterns influence self-sufficiency. This is particularly true for the Quechua communities, Indigenous peoples who have long worked for subsistence rather than state currencies. In recent years, health clinics, schools, markets, and transportation requiring residents to use cash have slowly eroded this way of life. Today, many Quechua men leave their communities to work in tourism, which offers an income and the opportunity to learn Spanish....

The fog surrounding the United States’s controversial pavilion exhibition at the 61st Venice Biennale has yet to lift as the international event inches closer, but one artist who was asked to represent the US has spoken out about her decision to decline the opportunity. In a statement, artist and author Barbara Chase-Riboud told the Financial Times that it was “not the moment.”The American-French sculptor whose dichotomous sculpture practice was recently celebrated in an exhibition across eight Parisian museums, was among the initial artists fielded by the recently formed American Arts Conservancy (AAC) to represent the US for the 2026 Biennale. The New York Times recently reported that both she and...

This past Sunday afternoon, April 19, artist Cey Adams put the finishing touches on his newest mixed-media collage on a large wooden drafting table as a handful of visitors trickled into his Jay Street studio as part of this year’s edition of DUMBO Open Studios.The graphic designer and founding creative director of Def Jam Recordings did not expect to sell anything. But he kept his loft door open because he enjoys the event’s impromptu conversations and the artist community that his building’s owner, Two Trees, has cultivated in Brooklyn for decades.“I like the idea that this exists,” Adams said. “When the pandemic happened, the owners asked me to do a Black Lives Matter mural at a time when a lot...

Marian Goodman Gallery will temporarily halt operations at its Los Angeles branch after its current show, an exhibition of the work of Tacita Dean, closes on April 25, Artnews reports. Per a statement sent to the platform, the gallery’s four partners—Rose Lord, Junette Teng, Emily-Jane Kirwan, and Leslie Nolen—are “consolidating programming to our historic homes in New […]

To celebrate the cult movie director’s 80th birthday, we bring you our interview with John Waters from Hi-Fructose Isssue 69. You can still get a copy in print of this issue here. Happy Birthday to The King of Puke! ABOVE: Portrait of John Waters, photo by Greg Gorman, © Academy Museum Foundation Early on in the […]
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A Renoir that hasn’t been seen in public in ninety-seven years due to the fact that it’s been ensconced in the private collection of the Whitney Payson family is going up for auction. La femme aux lilas (Portrait de Nini Lopez) (Woman with Lilacs [Portrait of Nine Lopez]), 1876–77, is a defining Impressionist masterpiece depicting the […]

By the end of last year, 2026 seemed poised to be the year of the Gulf for the art market. In December 2025, Sotheby’s held the first edition of Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week, netting $133 million in the process. This past February, Art Basel held the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar. And, in November, Frieze is set to host the first edition of its newly rebranded fair Frieze Abu Dhabi.  But then, after weeks of saber rattling, the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran. The Islamic Republic responded with attacks on the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. While the US and Iran are engaged in shaky ceasefire talks, the Gulf’s reputation as a low tax, safe place to do business in the...

A number of books that were stolen between 1982 and 1989 from John Hay Whitney, a venture capitalist, philanthropist and a former president of the Museum of Modern Art, have resurfaced thanks to efforts made by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit, the organization announced this week.  Over 28 titles were stolen from the Whitney’s estate in […]

Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli is set to receive more than 150,000 objects from Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the grandson of Diego Rivera, in a donation that significantly expands the museum’s holdings and renews attention on the artist’s original vision for the site. As first reported by The Art Newspaper, the gift spans centuries, from 16th-century ceramics to textiles, photographs, wooden objects, prints, and archival material tied to Rivera and his circle. The works will be transferred in stages over the coming months, beginning with ceramics and followed by manuscripts and correspondence, with completion expected by the end of the year.  Coronel Rivera, a photographer and art historian, spent more...

The personal treasures of Diane Keaton, the commanding actress who established a significant sartorial presence and wore hats as well as a milliner could ever dream, are the subject of an in-person auction in New York and three online sales courtesy of Bonhams. Exhibitions of the lots on offer will be mounted in Los Angeles, starting May 5, and New York, beginning May 29. “Diane Keaton: The Architecture of an Icon” is the main event, at the US flagship of Bonhams on West 57th Street on the evening of June 8. The three online auctions will relate to “The Diane Keaton Collection” with subtitles including “Tailored & Timeless,” “At Home with Diane,” and “Chapters of an Edited Life.” “Diane...

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, a onetime chief curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), will return to the Washington, DC, institution as its director. Hartigan is currently executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. She will begin her new role September 8. Hartigan succeeds Jane Carpenter-Rock, who took over as […]

Mummified foot BUDAPEST, HUNGARY—Ancient Egyptian mummified remains in the collection of the MNMKK Semmelweis Museum of Medical History were examined with a CT scanner equipped with a photon-counting detector, according to a statement released by Semmelweis University. The remains in the study include two heads, two left lower limbs, a mummy bundle containing a foot, and a hand. The oldest artifacts in the collection are some 2,300 years old. The resulting images revealed the internal structure of the body parts, said team physician Ibolyka Dudás, providing a highly detailed view of abnormalities and preservation techniques used in antiquity. The new images of the lower limb suggest that the individual had...

Tooth of a young man preserving the scarlet fever bacterium LA PAZ, BOLIVIA—According to a statement released by the Eurac Research Institute for Mummy Studies, genetic material from Streptococcus pyogenes, the bacterium that causes throat infections, scarlet fever, and toxic shock syndrome, has been detected in a 700-year-old tooth in the collection of Bolivia’s National Museum of Archaeology. It had been previously thought that the bacterium arrived in South America with Europeans. “We weren’t looking for this pathogen specifically,” said Frank Maizner of the Eurac Research Institute for Mummy Studies. The tooth came from the skull of a young man who lived between A.D. 1100 and 1450 in the arid...

Linen-wrapped mummified bodies in coffins, Al-Bahnasa, Egypt MINYA, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, a Roman-era tomb has been discovered in Upper Egypt at the site of Al-Bahnasa—the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus—by a team of Egyptian and Spanish researchers including Maite Mascort and Esther Pons of the University of Barcelona. Several decorated, linen-wrapped mummies were found in the tomb in addition to wooden coffins. Three golden tongues, one copper tongue, and gold leaf were also uncovered alongside some of the mummified bodies. A papyrus buried with one of the individuals contains a passage from book 2 of Homer’s Iliad known as the Catalogue of Ships, which lists the Greek forces that...

Dull conducting makes Der Freischütz miss its mark at Carnegie Hall.

Building sites and agricultural areas are typically described by the utilitarian operations that shape them—rugged, harsh, and often back-breaking. They are spaces that resist softness, built quite literally around force and tension. Artist Pia Hinz flips this idea on its head as she explores the conceptual and material relationship between strength and vulnerability. Living and working between Ardèche, Amsterdam, and Arles, France, Hinz has been working with stained glass for the past three years. She focuses much of her work on objects that one might find in environments of labor, such as construction or farming. Her sculptures take on an array of recognizable forms including hammers, screws, traffic...

Rosa Ponselle is the singer who had it all.

Street photography has long occupied a paradoxical space within the history of image making – at once documentary and deeply subjective, anchored in the real yet charged with the fleeting architecture of perception. Its most enduring practitioners operate in the charged interval between chance and intent, where composition is not merely arranged but discovered in motion. The genre thrives on attentiveness to the ordinary – the flick of a glance, the choreography of bodies in public space, the accidental poetry of urban life. Within this field, the question is never simply what is seen, but how seeing itself is structured: through proximity, timing, and an instinctual responsiveness to the world unfolding...

KARABUK, TURKEY—Türkiye Today reports that a 1,500-year-old set of four iron knives of varying sizes and a whetstone were discovered at the site of Hadrianopolis in Turkey’s Black Sea region. Ersin Çelikbaş of Karabük University said that the knives and the sharpener were uncovered in the kitchen section of an area of the city known as the Bath Structure Complex. Although the knives were recovered in pieces, they have been restored and reassembled. The knives were likely used to process locally raised animals, Çelikbaş explained. Analysis of the whetstone revealed that it was sourced from a nearby quarry and shows that the quarry was in use earlier than previously known. For more on the archaeology...

Magnified view of silver wire wrapped around the bronze brooch BISENZIO, ITALY—New examination of artifacts recovered from a tomb discovered in 1927 near the Etruscan site of Bisenzio suggests that luxury materials from the western Mediterranean were traded in the interior of the Italian peninsula, according to a report in La Brújula Verde. Located in central Italy’s necropolis of Olmo Bello, the rectangular stone cist contained cremated remains, weapons, and ceramics dated to between 750 and 725 B.C. Andrea Babbi of Italy’s Institute of Heritage Science said that one of these artifacts, a bronze brooch, had been wrapped with a thin, ornamental silver wire shaped by a series of grooved rollers. Study of...

When we think of “invasive species,” perhaps zebra mussels or kudzu vine spring to mind. Both have flourished in their non-native environments and continue to threaten other native organisms. Invasive species aren’t inherently bad—they’re just trying to survive—but by definition, they’re likely to disrupt local ecosystems and even cause billions of dollars worth of damage each year. So, what does one California city have to say about its burgeoning population of… peacocks? Introduced by a businessman and land baron named Elias Lucky Baldwin more than a century ago, the avian population has long called the area home. Over the years, though, as the originally open area filled with homes and...

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Gregory Spears, whose newest opera Sleepers Awake opens this week at Opera Philadelphia, is reviving Romanticism

Mark Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015) is one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. For four decades, she turned her lens upon those marginalised, overlooked and neglected by society. This month, her iconic works are on display alongside self-taught Turkish artist Sabiha Çimen (b. 1986) at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. Sabiha Çimen and Mary Ellen Mark: The Girls highlights the universal nature of being a girl, captured by two artists separated by time and geography. The photographers never met, but their careers intertwined briefly in 2012, when Çimen was asked by a curator to locate a Turkish girl photographed by Mark in 1965. The curator was curious about subject’s...

What does it mean to make art together, apart? As digital infrastructures reshape how we connect and collaborate, creatives are no longer bound to the physical studio – nor are students. In fact, a growing number of arts education programmes are rethinking how practice can be taught, shared and sustained across distance. Falmouth University’s MA Fine Art Online is one such course. Aesthetica speaks to lecturers Josie Cockram, Kate Fahey and Srin Surti about how the programme brings together artists working across continents, contexts and disciplines to engage with global political, economic, social and ecological change. They reflect on recent showcases, share success stories and consider what lies...

By Katherine Kesey In the last few years, Los Angeles's Melrose Hill neighborhood has quickly become one of the city's most walkable arts districts. This past Saturday night, there were nearly ten coordinated openings, and I attended almost all of them. Taken individually, the shows were equally captivating. Together, they were a warm and exciting medley of passionate color, lighthearted mystery, and wry humor. Hannah Tishkoff, Beyond Love There is No Belief. 2026. Acrylic, oil, and pennies...

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For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Nature category: Sophie Altemus.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sophie Altemus is a photographer currently studying at Oberlin College in Ohio. Working primarily in the realm of snapshot photography, she carries a camera with her everywhere she goes.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of design variables, you can...

In the forest nothing stands still. Time layered through thoughts and feelings, leaves kicked and crunched as we walk. The trees talk to each other, sending mycelium messages, carbon gifts, and warnings of drought or illness. From ancient wisdom to popular culture, it’s all here.
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? Of course it did. And if Jo Stapleton was there to capture the moment, there would be a visual symphony of light, shape and form to follow.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, this beautiful collection of 100 images by Jo Stapleton is an expressionist photographic account of her interactions with trees, forest and woodland, later remembered and...

In a world not so unlike our own, during a time not that long ago, a mother wolf sits comfortably upon an abandoned tree stump in a clearing in the woods. Surrounded by carefully rendered flora and fauna, the creature is positioned upright with impeccable posture and human-like mannerisms. Her hind legs are crossed at […]
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For our fourth edition of the Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Portrait, Street, Colour, Nature, Student. You can view all the winners and shortlisted photographers here.
It’s our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Colour category, Chanyoung Chung. Born in South Korea and raised in Montréal, Chung came to photography after seven years working as a nurse in Vancouver. Now back in Montréal, he creates still-life images in the studio while also photographing traces of contemporary life beyond it. His work invites reflection on peace, cooperation, and the quiet harmony that can emerge within society.
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By Kristine Schomaker The work hits immediately. Not one piece — all of it, simultaneously. Large sculptural assemblages covering the walls, a freestanding sculpture in the middle of the room, a piece suspended from the ceiling. The whole gallery feeling like its own solar system, each work a satellite orbiting something enormous and unspoken. Last night, four humans splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after flying around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. Artemis II...