Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Pat Oleszko Gets Whitney Biennial AwardArtist Pat Oleszko, whose oversized inflatable sculpture and early film work dazzled visitors at this year's Whitney Biennial, has received the 2026 Bucksbaum Award. The $100,000 prize is awarded by the Whitney Museum of American Art in recognition of a Biennial artist whose work captures “a singular combination of talent and imagination.” Having just closed out a major solo exhibition at the SculptureCenter in New York City and currently showing works at The Campus in Upstate New York, the artist is having...

New York City sculptor Sergio Furnari is being raked over the coals online over his plan to unveil a memorial sculpture of slain right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk in Times Square. Thousands have flocked to Furnari's Instagram comments to troll and threaten the forthcoming memorial, which will reportedly be unveiled on September 10 in recognition of the first anniversary of Kirk's assassination. Flurries of crude jokes and punchlines riffing off Kirk's political beliefs and the manner of his killing have piled up across Furnari's posts, continuing to push the boundaries of what is and isn't protected by free speech. Others have threatened to damage, vandalize, and urinate on the...

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A ten-foot-tall “Iran War Participation Trophy” has been placed on the lawn of the National Mall in Washington D.C., recognizing President Donald Trump. The trophy, which is spray-painted gold and features “#1” and “Participant” embossed on its body and base respectively, is the handiwork of satirical artist collective the Secret Handshake, who created another installation […]

Photos by Robert Berg, Gregory Gorman, courtesy of the Donum; with additional photos by Annie Owens Balancing awe and meditative moments, the sculptures of The Donum Collection populate a sprawling vineyard estate, with many works many commissioned expressly to respond to the lush landscape they inhabit. Seventy works of art, ranging from bronze sculptures by […]
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Nayarit artist(s) created this standing male figure around 100–400 CE. (image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art)A 1,600-year-old sculpture previously held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art is being repatriated to Mexico, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced on Wednesday, July 15. The DA's office seized three archeological objects, which include a ceramic Nayarit sculpture (c. 100–400 CE) formerly held in The Met's collection, following new information obtained from the Antiquities Trafficking Unit's ongoing investigations. The other repatriated objects are a Xochipala Bowl (c. 1200–900 BCE) seized from New York's Merrin Gallery in 2025 and an obsidian stone core...

Stacked timber pallets create a shelter by Jakob+MacFarlane
 
Designed by Jakob+MacFarlane, A Shelter for Peace is a temporary installation located on the exposed headland of Cap Carteret in Normandy, France, overlooking the English Channel. Commissioned by Nadine Gandy of Gandy Gallery as part of the Common Shelters initiative, the project explores the concept of shelter through the reuse of reclaimed wooden pallets, examining the relationship between architecture, landscape, and contemplation.
 
Responding to the site’s exposed coastal conditions, the design reinterprets the shelter as both a place of protection and a framework for engaging with the surrounding environment. Constructed from stacked...

Debika Ray writes about the film that beloved Indian author Arundhati Roy made during her time as an architecture student for Apollo:Seen with the hindsight of four decades, the film feels like the Arundhati Roy origin story. It is hard not to read the cynicism of the character she plays – and her uncertainty about what she might do after graduating, if not architecture – as an early articulation of her own disillusionment with the profession’s narrow notions of progress and subsequent discovery of her political voice. But it’s also the origin story of modern India – the accelerating pace of development and the shifting relationship between urban and rural – and a prescient glimpse of some of the...

Steidl, the internationally known German-language publisher founded in 1969 in Göttingen, Germany, by Gerhard Steidl, is in the throes of financial difficulties so severe that it has wound up in court. German daily Der Spiegel reports that the publisher filed to start preliminary insolvency proceedings on July 12 after struggling to pay employees regularly for months, with […]

The Trump administration has significantly diminished the size of two national monuments in Utah that hold sacred lands and rich archaeological sites. Through a series of executive proclamations issued under the Antiquities Act this week, Trump shrunk the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments by approximately 90% each. The announcement, which comes as the president pushes to expand "energy development" on federal lands, prompted outrage from tribal organizations, environmental activists, and cultural preservation groups. As part of the cuts, the president shaved Grand Staircase-Escalante's 1.87 million acres down to a mere 181,500 acres, and similarly cut Bears Ears' 1.36...

The Artists Living With Cancer Grant, an unrestricted award of $25,000 that was co-developed by the Rema Hort Mann Fund (RHMF) and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, has just named its inaugural recipient. The awardee is Jacolby Satterwhite, a prolific conceptual and digital artist who has grappled with cancer since he was twelve years old.  Satterwhite, […]

The Preserve Act specifically sites Washington, DC’s Cohen Building—the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”

The LEGO Group has announced a partnership with the Belvedere Museum in Vienna to release a 4,000-piece Lego set of Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss (1907–08). The set, the largest painting-inspired one that the company has ever produced, will be available for purchase beginning August 1. It has a retail price of $299.99. Unlike the original painting, the Lego version of The Kiss is technically three-dimensional, as building enthusiasts (ages 18+, per the box) are meant to stack various sections of the painting atop one another, giving the finished product more depth than Klimt’s original painting. While most LEGO sets traditionally feature paper instructions on how to build the final piece, this one will also...

The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the repatriation of three antiquities valued at $160,000 to Mexico, including one seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The return of the objects is a result of multiple investigations into illegal trafficking networks, including one that led to the conviction of Eugene Alexander last summer. According to a press release announcing the news, “This marks this Office’s sixth repatriation to the People of Mexico totaling 52 antiquities valued at more than $13 million.” The object seized from the Met is a Standing Male Figure dating back to ca. 100-400 that had been sold by the New York-based Merrin Gallery and donated to the...

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Set to break ground in January 2027, a new wing of the Clark Art Institute, based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, will house the Aso O. Tavitian collection, which includes over 300 works of art from the private collection of the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Aso O. Tavitian. The collection is among the most significant private holdings […]

Several political parties across the UK Parliament have called for an independent investigation into the British Museum’s removal of the terms “Palestine,” “Palestinian,” and “Israelite occupation” after a Middle East Eye report linked the museum’s decision to lobbying by pro-Israel activists. The British Museum defended its decision to alter some displays in February, saying that “audience testing” showed the term “Palestine” to be “no longer meaningful”—a claim challenged earlier this month by disclosures made to Middle East Eye (MEE), which found that no such audience testing or visitor research relating to the term “Palestine” had been conducted.  Rather, an analysis of...

An iconic piece of Star Wars memorabilia smashed predictions and sold for a record-setting sum.  Heritage Auctions confirmed late Wednesday afternoon that Mark Hamill’s original screen-used Luke Skywalker lightsaber sold for $3.75 million. It’s the one he wielded during a climactic face-off with Darth Vader in 1980’s Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back until the Sith Lord cut off his hand and delivered the infamous “I am your father” line. Per multiple reports, it was originally offered for $1 million and expected to fetch in that range up to $2 million. The $3.75 million sum set a new world auction record for a screen-used Star Wars prop, per Dallas-based Heritage. The previous...

The German state of Bavaria has overhauled the way that claims for restitution of Nazi-looted artworks will be evaluated. The state will establish a Center for Provenance Research and Restitution Issues of Nazi-Looted Art at the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ). This takes the provenance research outside of the museums that own the works and thus could be suspected of being less than objective in evaluating such claims. Andreas Wirsching, director of the IfZ, called the move a “quantum leap” in a press announcement. Wirsching headed up the Roundtable on Historical Responsibility that devised the new procedures.  The group will be chaired by Raphael Gross, director of the German Historical Museum...

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As the outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease continues on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a new city report shows more art institutions affected

In the mountains of northern Italy, far from his studio in Madrid, David Oliver was supposed to be resting. It was early 2025 and he had gone with friends to a house in the Dolomites on a retreat to disconnect. Instead, Oliver found himself staring at images on his phone of cities under bombardment in […]
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If you were to rip open a tattered matchbox, what might you find hidden in its confines? And what’s lurking behind biological renderings and advertisements? Jason Limon imagines a playful world in which vintage illustrations are the colorful veneer concealing a vast, three-dimensional universe populated by skeletons. The San Antonio-based artist has long painted otherworldly scenes dominated by life after death, when bony figures are stripped of their identities and instead function as anonymous entities. Tapping into emotion and personal experience, Limon continues to conjure the uncanny through a cheeky approach to one of the most universal symbols. “Matchbook Tiger,” 12 x 9 inches In his most recent...

MK Gallery presents the first major L.S. Lowry exhibition in over 13 years, bringing together more than 140 paintings and drawings.

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Salvador Salort-Pons, a noted Velázquez scholar, says he made the discovery by chance while preparing a related exhibition at the museum

MICHELE DE LUCCHI TAKES THE CREATIVE LEAD
 
At Milan’s Palazzo dell’Arte, Michele De Lucchi has been appointed the first creative director of Triennale Milano, taking on a newly created role that will shape the institution’s cultural direction through 2030. The architect and designer will also lead the Museo del Design Italiano, overseeing its permanent collection and future acquisitions.
 
His appointment was announced on July 14th, 2026, as President Vincenzo Trione and General Director Carla Morogallo presented Triennale’s strategy for the next four years.
 
The appointment closes a curious circle for De Lucchi, who recalled protesting against the 1973 Triennale while he was still a student. More...

The Royal College of Art has launched a new network of creative education partnerships across the UK and Ireland

Grizzo Studio organizes a house around Cariló’s existing forest
 
Treinta y Nueve Árboles House, designed by Grizzo Studio, is located within the forest landscape of Cariló, Argentina, where the architecture is organized around the existing vegetation. Rather than reshaping the site, the project preserves the mature trees and adapts the house to its surroundings, establishing a close relationship between the built structure and the forest. Filtered sunlight, dense tree canopies, and ground vegetation inform both the placement of the building and its spatial organization, allowing the architecture to function as a framework for observing and experiencing the landscape.
 
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“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it,” wrote stoic philosopher Lucius Seneca. The phrase appeared in his essay “De Brevitate Vitae,” or, “On the Shortness of Life,” which he scratched into papyrus around 49 A.D. Nearly 2,000 years on, his words reflect what is still a fundamental concern of life—how to spend it wisely? For artist Marc Padeu, the notion of humans’ futile control of time forms the basis of a new suite of works in Memento Vivere, on view starting tomorrow at Larkin Durey. Padeu is known for merging scenes of daily life with references to Renaissance religious paintings. Among his newest works, “La promesse et l’agneau” (“The promise...

Zany gags keep Zar und Zimmermann zipping along at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

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A new Archive Study Centre will open as part of a multi-year programme by Historic Royal Palaces

carsten höller asks what happens when play stops being fun
 
For more than three decades, Carsten Höller has borrowed the language of amusement parks, playgrounds, games, and scientific experiments to test that play is not an escape from reality but a way of questioning it. His latest exhibition, Two, now open at Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art until January 31st, 2027, extends that investigation by turning the museum into a pair of parallel worlds where visitors navigate the same exhibition differently, depending entirely on chance. Marking Höller’s first institutional solo exhibition in China, the project continues his exploration of uncertainty as experience.
 
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URBAN SOUL PROJECT SHAPES QUIET CHOREOGRAPHED ATMOSPHERES
 
Approaching hospitality as a dynamic sequence of experiences, Urban Soul Project’s design practice moves past the standard formulas of hotel and resort layouts. Instead, the studio crafts non-linear, choreographed atmospheres that unfold gradually through an interplay of material sensitivity and contextual references. Their portfolio spans from architectural landmarks to the tactile integration of local food culture into social hubs, stretching all the way to the landscape-driven design of destination resorts. This diverse body of work is united by the studio’s aim to always engage guests from their first step inside, answering a fundamental...

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Paul Carey-Kent chooses Kenjiro Okazaki's richly layered abstract painting at Pace Gallery as his Work of the Month.

Show at the Jewish Museum looks at the movement founded by members of the Vienna Secession, who rejected Bauhaus's mass-production ethos

Diciassette opere, divise fra dipinti su mappa e plate paintings ed esposte alla Pace Gallery, mettono in scena lo stesso soggetto ripetuto fino all’ipnosi: il pino domestico italiano, Pinus pinea, osservato da Julian Schnabel ogni giorno durante le riprese di In the Hand of Dante nei pressi di Villa Borghese. Finite le riprese, l’artista si è rifugiato ad Ansedonia, dove una pineta simile circondava la casa. Lì, en plein air, ha cominciato a dipingere.
Julian Schnabel, “Italy Through Its Trees“, installation view, May 15 – August 14, 2026, ph. courtesy Pace Gallery, New York
Schnabel dichiara, nel comunicato della mostra, che questi lavori non sono immagini di alberi. La materia dei quadri...

Acclaimed British photographer Peter Marlow (1952-2016) was known for his journalistic attention to people and happenings in conflict zones and political interactions. Throughout his career, though, he also embarked on numerous personal documentary projects like Liverpool: Looking Out to Sea, which he completed in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the city experienced sharp economic decline—its historic docks were no longer viable for global industry. He was also president of Magnum Photos twice. One of Marlow’s more meditative projects revolved around 42 Anglican cathedrals across England. The Anglican Christian tradition stems from the establishment of the Church of England following the English...

Rarely do artists conceive of work that is prescient and, decades on, more urgent than when it was created. One who has accomplished this is certainly Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), whose interdisciplinary practice merged photography, land art, sculpture, film, and more. And in a large-scale, immersive survey of her work that opens today at Tate Modern, more than 120 pieces revisit the groundbreaking artist’s key series and empathetic exchange with land and nature. Mendieta is best known for her Silueta Series, in which she impressed the shape of the human body in water, mud, rock, and forests. These sometimes consisted of outlines “drawn” onto surfaces, such as a gunpowder tribute on a fallen tree, which...

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One Italian soprano continues to save the day in bel canto roles at La Scala; this week Parterre Box features Marta Torbidoni.

Many years ago, when the Met was deciding who the next principal conductor/music director was going to be, it seemed to be a tie between YN-S and Fabio Luisi.

Una donna con un fazzoletto, una gonna, un grembiule e una camicetta – un semplice abito tipico dei piccoli villaggi balcanici – corre intorno a un albero. Ancora e ancora. E ancora. Si ferma. Sette anni dopo, una donna che le somiglia corre intorno a un albero diverso. E ancora. In Round Around, questa donna è e non è solo Sandra Sterle, l’artista croata di performance multimediali, ma è anche un archetipo di altre donne impegnate in lavori ripetitivi in ​​piccoli luoghi decentrati. Ogni video è stato girato a distanza di sette anni (1996/2003/2010/2017/2024), ognuno in un luogo diverso (a Mljet, vicino a Zara, vicino a Spalato, sull’Isola Nuda/Omiš), ognuno con una telecamera diversa....

In Yorùbá culture, it’s said that more than 600 years ago, a hunter discovered a lush grove in southwestern Nigeria carved by a rushing river. His community had experienced drought and eagerly moved to the region, which they quickly learned was under the rule of the goddess of rivers and fertility, Ọ̀ṣun. In exchange for protection and prosperity, the people promised to celebrate the deity, and this pact grounds what’s now known as the Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove. A UNESCO World Heritage site spanning 190 acres, the spiritual sanctuary has long been revered by the Yorùbá people, and in the mid-20th century, a group of artists revitalized the landscape by erecting large-scale sculptures in...

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Earlier this month, Karen Harvey announced that Shutter Hub would begin a new chapter under the stewardship of its community, marking the organisation’s most significant evolution to date. It was also one of its most radical acts, placing the future of Shutter Hub into the hands of the people who have helped shape it over the past decade.
Since its beginnings, Shutter Hub has championed a democratic approach to photography, creating opportunities that are open, accessible, and driven by community rather than hierarchy. The creation of a Community Team is a natural continuation of those values, ensuring that the organisation’s future is informed by a diverse network of practitioners, educators, curators,...

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Pierre Monteux's career defies time.

La scelta di mettere in dialogo Arthur Jafa e Richard Prince potrebbe apparire, a prima vista, come l’ennesima operazione curatoriale costruita attorno al paradigma dell’appropriazione. Helter Skelter, la mostra curata da Nancy Spector per Fondazione Prada a Ca’ Corner della Regina, dimostra invece come questo dispositivo critico possa ancora produrre nuovi significati quando viene sottratto alla semplice genealogia postmoderna per confrontarsi con la crisi contemporanea dell’immagine.
Arthur Jafa, “Viriconium”, 2026. Veduta della mostra “Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince”. Foto di Andrea Rossetti, per gentile concessione della Fondazione Prada
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A grandly sung revival of The Ballad of Baby Doe at Central City Opera mines poignance from America's past and present.

Lino Fiorito non ha mai separato davvero la pittura dallo spazio. Anche quando lavora sulla superficie della tela, le sue immagini sembrano già pensate come corpi; quando invece la forma occupa fisicamente un ambiente, continua a comportarsi come un dipinto. È a partire da questa continuità che le due mostre presentate tra 480 Site Specific ed EDICOLA480 possono essere lette come un unico progetto articolato in due tempi, in cui la seconda non rappresenta una conclusione, ma una naturale condensazione della prima.
Lino Fiorito solo show, installation view, 2026, 480 Site Specific, Napoli, courtesy dell’artista e 480 Site Specific, Photo: Danilo Donzelli
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Ho parlato con lo scultore di Zagabria, Vladimir Novak, per diverse settimane questa primavera, culminando in una conversazione, “Tra scultura e città”, organizzata da Residency Unlimited a New York. Il lavoro recente di Novak si concentra su questioni scultoree relative alle risposte fisiche degli oggetti nello spazio in modi sorprendenti. Ciò include meccanismi accuratamente calibrati, come l’uso di piccole macchine leggermente decentrate e posizionate dietro le quinte che animano l’opera e le interazioni con il pubblico che le attivano.
Vladimir Novak, “≈ 30 Steps In Balance”, 2018. © Vladimir Novak, foto di Zvonimir Ferina, per gentile concessione dell’Artista
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By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...

Memory may not be a tape-recorder, but in Sasha Gordon’s work, it serves as a device for the initial transportation. Characters wander this fluxing landscape—be it a drive-through window, a master bedroom, or white suburbia—shifting through the dynamic background of her dream-like haze. As a viewer of Gordon’s narrative paintings, you are intruding on intimate […]
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