In May 2025, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Mexico City. It was Macron’s first official visit to Mexico, and was an important step in Mexico’s recent attempts to bolster trade relations with Europe. While much of the meeting focused on economic relations between the countries, Sheinbaum also announced that France and Mexico agreed to temporarily exchange a pair of handwritten codices. The Codex Azcatitlán, housed in Paris’s Bibliothèque Nationale de France, will travel to Mexico City, while the Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia will loan its Codex Boturini to Paris. Due to conservation concerns, neither are frequently on view in their...

Welcome to the new year! Whether you spent the holidays here, or somewhere a little less bitterly cold, we hope they filled your heart with warmth. A lot has changed since the last time I popped up in your inbox — a little Christmas snow (or close enough) for the first time in a very long time. And we swore in a new mayor in the bowels of an abandoned subway station. (If you didn't get an invite to that ceremony, here's a tip: Stay on the downtown 6 after the last stop, and you'll loop around that gorgeous station.) The start of a new year is always a bit surreal and difficult for me to grasp — I won't even mention how many times I've accidentally written "2025" in these first...

LOS ANGELES — Art, at its very best, reminds me that there is a world out there that I not only belong to but trust — perhaps even love. Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s beeswax-dipped drawings of erupting women, mystical landscapes, and hallucinatory flora in The Awake Volcanoes at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, did just that. Oh, that old mystery of finding oneself reflected in the material fragments of someone else’s private imaginary. After all these years and an untold number of visits to galleries and museums, it astonishes me anew when the adage proves true: that by following the strangest, most idiosyncratic contours of vision, it’s possible to arrive at a general truth. Yes:...

The publication draws on inventories, correspondence and rediscovered works to reveal new theories

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In the early 20th century, Russia underwent a series of drastic and devastating changes. After centuries of imperial rule, the 1917 Russian Revolution put an end to the Romanov dynasty and hailed the start of a new era under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, head of the Bolshevik Party. This government body eventually became known as the Communist Party, and Russia was dubbed the Union of Soviet Social Republicans, or the U.S.S.R. In 1927, everything changed again. Lenin died that year, and a new leader maneuvered into power: Joseph Stalin. Fundamentally a dictator, Stalin ruled through terror and used violence and oppressive tactics to instill a government-controlled society. His approach essentially defines...

A plan by the Flemish government to dissolve M HKA, a beloved contemporary art institution in Antwerp, has come under further fire, with a legal review initiated by the museum now claiming that such a move would be illegal. VRT News, a Belgian outlet, reported that M HKA had worked with several artists to bring on lawyers to look over the plan. The results of that review were presented to the press on Tuesday, with well-known artists such as Luc Tuymans and Otobong Nkanga on hand at the conference. M HKA said in a release that the government’s plan contained “flagrant illegalities.” The plan, revealed in October of last year, would see the M HKA essentially closed down, with its collection sent to Ghent...

Arrival from the Sea Across pine-covered Långholmen island
 
A newly completed house by Mer Architects sits on a rocky island known as Långholmen in a Finnish coastal archipelago. The site lies among granite and gneiss outcrops shaped by post-glacial uplift, with pine trees rising directly from shallow soil pockets along the shore.
 
Långholmen is defined by high, smooth rock faces and a dense ground layer of mosses and lichen. The timber building occupies a narrow zone between exposed stone and mature pines, positioned to follow the existing contours rather than clearing them.
 
Arrival takes place from the open sea into a sheltered cove, where a large timber jetty functions as the primary outdoor...

LONDON — Is the suggestion of competition in the title of Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals at Tate Britain intended to get the juices flowing? Is there any truth in it? Or is it a crude PR exercise to lure us through the door? The show is enormous — 12 galleries in all. Turner and Constable seem to define between them much about the nature of art in England at the turn of the 19th century. The soaring sublimity of J.M.W. Turner (the triple rat-a-tat of those abbreviated initials seems to give the name added gravitas) is set against the paintings of the humbler-sounding John Constable, a gentler seeker of some authentic representation of Dedham Vale and the Stour Valley in rural England....

The curator Alice Christophe delves into the catalogue and picks out some key objects ahead of the exhibition in London

Staff at the Louvre in Paris staged another walkout this week, intensifying opposition to a major redevelopment plan that includes a dedicated gallery for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and a new entrance intended to ease pressure on the museum’s main access points. According to the Art Newspaper, the museum closed Monday morning before partially reopening at noon (local time), with visitors granted access to a limited set of high-profile works including the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, and the Winged Victory of Samothrace, while other galleries remained closed. The strike was backed by three unions, which said 350 staff members, including curators, voted unanimously for the action. The walkout...

Our books editor picks out some of the highlights of the months ahead

The National Weather Museum and Science Center in Norman, Oklahoma, the only US museum dedicated to weather artifacts, said late last month that it is at risk of closing. The nonprofit, launched in the early 2000s, has relied completely on donations, grants, and partnerships for funding, and receives no federal funding. But recently, the Cleveland County Economic Development Coalition (CCEDC) said that it would halt funding to the museum due to a contract dispute with the Norman City Council. The CCEDC, and its predecessor, the Norman Economic Development Coalition, have long been major funders of the National Weather Museum. The CCEDC has provided around $5,000 annually for museum operations, with the...

Art historian’s dissection of famous work is as much about the painting as his decades-long obsession with it

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesCOLLATERAL DAMAGE CONTROL. The Financial Times reported that half of non-bank lenders offering loans against artworks experienced defaults in 2024, up sharply from 17 percent two years earlier, according to the Art and Finance Report 2025, published by Deloitte Private and ArtTactic. While this marks an improvement on 2020, when two-thirds of lenders reported defaults during the Covid-19shutdown, it underscores growing stress in the sector. Harry Smith of Gurr Johns said lending is now viable only for top-tier works, as the firm winds down its own small lending operation. The art market...

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Layered wire mesh reimagines the Japanese tea Ceremony House
 
The Wire Mesh Tea Ceremony House by Moriyuki Ochiai Architects presents a reinterpretation of the traditional Japanese tea house through the use of industrial diamond-shaped wire mesh. The project reconsiders the spatial and sensory qualities of the tea ceremony environment by replacing conventional solid enclosures with layered, permeable materials.
 
Wire mesh is employed as both structure and spatial filter. Its composition of lines and voids allows variations in wire type, thickness, density, and color, producing a wide range of visual and atmospheric effects. These variables influence light transmission, shadow, sightlines, and airflow,...

TDM’s audio device folds into a portable listening gadget
 
TDM introduces Neo, a pair of hybrid headphones that twist into a portable bluetooth speaker for outdoor and group listening. Unveiled at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the device combines headphones and a speaker in one, with no extra cables or setups needed. By twisting the gadget, it folds into a speaker, which users can use to stream their music anywhere they go. In headphone mode, sound plays directly into the ears for privacy. In speaker mode, the sound moves to the built-in speaker drivers so everyone around the user can hear it.
 
Inside the hybrid headphones that turn into a portable bluetooth speaker, the design is engineered to work well in...

Happy Armenian Christmas to our readers who celebrate. Remember the days when some of us had to actually convince people that American imperialist adventures like the Iraq War were more about stealing the country's oil than "promoting democracy"? Who needs any convincing now when the American president makes no effort to hide his real intentions?Yes, the US invasion of Venezuela and the abduction of its leader, Nicolás Maduro, are all about seizing the country's oil reserves, the largest in the world. However, for many Venezuelans who had suffered under Maduro's autocratic regime, it's not so black and white. Today, we hear from five Venezuelan artists and cultural workers about their...

a hotel in China shaped by tides, light, and coastal topography
 
Perched on the southwestern edge of Dongshan Island in China, the Dongshan West Bay Resort by Protoscapes transforms a decommissioned fishing pier into a public-facing coastal landscape. Located on the former site of Qianlou Town’s historic fishery center, the project marks the first diving-themed resort on the island. 
 
The architectural language is shaped by the surrounding geography. Undulating balcony lines echo tidal rhythms, while curvilinear triangular openings along the hotel corridors draw northeastern light inward and orient views toward distant mountain ranges. On the northeastern edge, a 24-meter diving tower rises as a...

WORLD DESIGN RANKING REVEALS TOP NATIONS LEADING IN 2025
 
The World Design Rankings (WDR) has unveiled its 2025 results, providing a snapshot of how design-led innovation is distributed across the globe. The ranking offers a deep dive into the creative power of 114 nations, measured by their success within the A’ Design Award. The latest data confirms China’s continued dominance in the top spot, followed closely by the United States, Japan, Italy, and Hong Kong. From the architectural precision of European countries to the rapidly evolving tech-design sectors in Asia, the 2025 results highlight where innovation is accelerating. This year’s top 20 also sees strong performances from Turkey, Portugal,...

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Shigeru Ban has spent over four decades redefining what architecture can achieve, merging innovation with social conscience to create spaces that are as humane as they are visionary. From paper-tube shelters in disaster zones to landmark cultural institutions, his work demonstrates that architecture can transcend aesthetics, offering both dignity and hope. The Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow now presents a new exhibition that traces this remarkable career, situating Ban’s practice within a global dialogue of design, material experimentation and humanitarian ambition. Born in Tokyo in 1957, Ban studied architecture in the United States, a period that profoundly shaped his sensibility....

In 1955, New York’s MoMA opened The Family of Man, an ambitious exhibition which brought together hundreds of images by photographers around the world. It was organised by Edward Steichen, whose aim was to demonstrate “the gamut of life from birth to death” through pictures. The display toured internationally and was seen by more than 9 million visitors, and is now regarded as one of the most famous shows of all time. Perhaps most importantly, it positioned the idea of “family” as something bigger than our immediate, or biological, circles. The images showed how complex and wide-reaching the term can be – highlighting shared experiences across borders. Now, Brussels’ Hangar presents Family...

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The term “needlework” covers a wide variety of thread-based practices from sewing to knitting to lace-making. While some of these are functional, techniques like embroidery are often employed purely for their aesthetic qualities. From ornately stitched Japanese robes to regal, patterned belts in Central Africa’s Kuba kingdom, the time-honored medium is diverse with virtually endless applications. In The Atlas of World Embroidery by Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, forthcoming from Princeton University Press, a world of compositions made with needle and thread is compiled into a single volume. A belt for a Kuba king or immediate family, which has numerous small pendants, including ram’s heads, bells, and...

In the early hours of Saturday, January 3, the United States military carried out a raid and bombardment in Caracas, Venezuela, and abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The assault in the capital city, which killed at least 40 people including civilians, according to local authorities, stunned and divided the world. As many celebrated what they saw as the downfall of a tyrant, others condemned President Trump's stated intent to take Venezuela's natural resources. Still others saw in the strikes the long shadow of US intervention in Latin America, often with deadly results. Hyperallergic asked various artists and art workers in the diaspora for their honest, personal...

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) is now accepting applications for the 2027 Arts/Industry residency, a three-month program hosted by Kohler Co. in Kohler, Wisconsin. More than 600 artists have benefited from this celebrated artist residency since its beginning in 1974. Kohler Co. will host four artists at a time for the three-month residency: Within each cohort, two residents work in the Kohler Co. Pottery and two in the Foundry. Advance experience working with clay or metal is not required — artists must simply have an interest in adapting industrial processes to their practice.  Arts/Industry artist-in-residence Nirmal Raja in the Kohler Co. Foundry.  In addition to 24/7 studio access,...

From a single material, a Hyderabad-based design studio creates a wide range of site-specific installations, furnishings, and decor. It’s all in the name of the firm, The Wicker Story, which was founded in 2019 by architect Priyanka Narula. Capable of being formed into everything from abstract constructions to functional objects, the natural material lends itself a huge variety of pieces that vary in size and complexity. Wicker is a common technique used for basket-weaving and other applications in India, and The Wicker Story evolved out of a fascination with the geometry and math inherent in traditional Indian pieces. The material and process nods to a time-honored aesthetic while emphasizing organic forms,...

"I’m more interested in revealing the quiet violence of what we call ‘normal’ than in telling anyone what to feel. If a viewer finds their own discomfort in that—it’s a gift, not something I try to control.”
Read the full articl on the artist by clicking above.
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Topped with a roof shaped like a crabshell, Le Corbusier’s Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut is a sanctuary amid the French mountainside. The 1955 construction rests atop a hill in Ronchamp, standing unobstructed by the otherwise forested inclines. As the sun rises and falls, light filters in through the mélange of rectangular windows tinted to cast streams of color around the space. The stained glass apertures of Le Corbusier’s modernist chapel are a clear reference point for Luftwerk’s “Open Frame.” The site-specific work fills a cavernous corner of Secrist | Beach with a collection of rectangular aluminum panels painted with acrylic and, most notably, fluorescent. Where the pioneering architect sought...

 
The deadline for The City Series: Cambridge has been extended until 23 April 2026.
An ongoing series of publications, The City Series sets out to explore the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, showcasing images that respond to a place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
The inaugural volume explores a city that has welcomed us, and been home to nearly a dozen Shutter Hub exhibitions – Cambridge.
Rather than defining Cambridge by landmarks or narratives, we invite photographers to approach the city openly, perhaps through people, atmosphere, details, routines, abstractions, or moments that feel personal or unexpected....

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Cut flowers. Fruit. Vegetables. Household items. Still life photography captures all kinds of man-made and natural objects, documenting carefully arranged paraphernalia of everyday life. According to Tate, the genre: “can be a celebration of material pleasures such a food and wine, or often a warning of the ephemerality of these pleasures and the brevity of human life.” These five photographers take still life in new and unexpected directions. These five photographers take still life in new and unexpected directions. They turn tradition on its head, revealing the absurdity and occasional hilarity of modern society. Olivia Locher | Olivia Locher’s most recent projects include a satirical “how-to”...

In 2025, the Aesthetica Art Prize and its accompanying exhibition at York Art Gallery have brought together artists who confront the pressures shaping contemporary life with urgency, imagination and care. Their work spans performance, sculpture, film, photography and immersive installation, navigating themes that range from spiritual healing and embodied perception to ecological fragility, technological acceleration and cultural memory. As the Prize and exhibition draw to a close, this article takes a closer look at the ideas that have defined an exceptional year of art and artistic experimentation. Film Film stands out as one of the most dynamic and compelling areas of contemporary art and our 2025 Main Prize...

Nan Goldin, born in Washington D.C. in 1953, has spent over four decades documenting human intimacy, friendship, addiction and loss with an unflinching eye. Her work has been exhibited in institutions around the world – from MoMA, New York, to Tate Modern, London, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and Moderna Museet, Stockholm – cementing her reputation as one of the most influential photographers of her generation. However, her new exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, This Will Not End Well, offers a different lens. For the first time in Europe, the focus is on Goldin as a filmmaker, introducing commissions that transform the space into a sensory village of images, sound and architecture. “I have always wanted...

I meccanismi di decodifica che scattano non appena il nostro sguardo si posa su un’immagine funzionano per automatismi percettivi sedimentati in secoli di educazione visiva: in virtù della loro istantanea attivazione, siamo in grado di riconoscere forme, attribuire profondità, distinguere piani, senza che questo processo richieda alcuno sforzo cosciente, come se la visione fosse un atto naturale e neutro anziché una costruzione culturale complessa e storicamente determinata. Turbare quest’illusione di immediatezza e minare alle radici l’incondizionata fiducia che riponiamo nelle nostre capacità percettive è il cardine della sperimentazione pittorica di Luca Moscariello, che nella personale Sublimi...

Il “Museo del Genio” (Istituto Storico e di Cultura dell’Arma del Genio) di Roma non poteva cogliere migliore occasione per riaprire le porte al grande pubblico. Fino al 15 febbraio 2026, infatti, ospita “Vivian Maier. The Exhibition”, mostra dedicata ad una delle più grandi “fotografe di strada” del secolo scorso. Il percorso espositivo è un viaggio itinerante fra New York e Chicago, i cui vivaci quartieri catturati da Maier sono i protagonisti indiscussi.
Vivian Maier, “Armenian woman fighting on East 86th Street”, New York, NY, September 1956. Gelatin silver print, 2012, 40×50 cm, © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof. Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY
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"I'm trying to create a portrait of a person without their face, which is really interesting to me," Laurie Lee Brom says. Instead, she allows the setting and actions to shed light on who this person is... Read the full article by clicking above.
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Con Fantastica, la Quadriennale d’arte del 2025 si presenta come un progetto che assume l’immaginazione non come fuga dal reale, ma come strumento critico capace di riformulare il presente. Ideata da Luca Beatrice, scomparso improvvisamente a gennaio nell’anno dell’inaugurazione, questa edizione porta con sé il peso e la responsabilità di una visione che non si è potuta misurare direttamente con l’esito espositivo, ma che rimane leggibile come struttura concettuale diffusa. Beatrice aveva immaginato Fantastica come un campo di forze, non come una mappa ordinata: un luogo in cui l’arte italiana contemporanea potesse mostrarsi nella sua capacità di generare mondi, immagini e narrazioni...

AN ARTIST AND PEDAGOGUE of powerful originality with a personality to match, Ken Jacobs saw the full equation. Like his generational peer Stan Brakhage, and such earlier nonpareils Dziga Vertov and Oscar Micheaux, he reinvented the motion picture medium to suit his interests, which extended well beyond conventional cinema: not montage, but bricolage; not film […]

Nella fotografia di Santi Caleca c’è una donna bionda quasi quarantenne che sorride con un paio di infradito in mano in via Giulia a Roma: è Letizia Battaglia e siamo nel 1972. Può sembrare una semplice fotografia ed è invece un’immagine che reca in sé un elemento che contraddistinguerà le vicende umane e professionali di Letizia Battaglia: un coraggio tipicamente femminile (nomen omen). Santi Caleca è in quegli anni il compagno della fotografa che aveva (primo atto di coraggio) divorziato dal marito e anche, in via temporanea, da Palermo, per iniziare una nuova vita sotto il segno dell’ottava arte (secondo atto di coraggio che ripeterà sempre: «sono diventata fotografa a trentanove anni» e...

On architecture’s turn toward deep time 

“MIAMI’S A SUNNY PLACE for shady people!” observed Iggy Pop in a 2008 interview with CNN, just a few years after Art Basel landed on the sandbar that is South Beach and forever altered the landscape of both Miami and contemporary art. “I’m practical, where this place is moody [. . .] and I’m materialistic […]

Three times a year—September, January, and May—Artforum’s editors look ahead to the coming season of institutional exhibitions, identifying those that are likely to affect the trajectory of contemporary art and art history. In this issue, we preview twenty-four exhibitions opening around the world between January and April; also included is a list of notable annuals, […]

CAROLYN CHRISTOV-BAKARGIEV retired as director of Castello di Rivoli in Italy in 2023, where she previously served as chief curator from 2002 to 2009. She was the artistic director of Documenta 13, 2012, which took place in Kassel; Kabul and Bamiyan, Afghanistan; Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt; and Banff, Canada. In a wide-ranging conversation for this […]

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La storia artistica di Carmine Rezzuti non devo certamente presentarvela io: Rezzuti è un artista che ha saputo raccontarsi, nel tempo, con genio raffinato e una profonda e simbolica narrazione iconografica. Le sue scelte hanno sempre attraversato l’immaginifico, sia quando ha lavorato in esperienze site-specific, sia quando tutto è nato spontaneamente nel silenzio del suo studio, immaginando spazi da contaminare e luoghi da percorrere con estro e originalità.
Carmine Rezzuti, vista d’insieme della mostra “…Di Notte” alla Galleria Frame Arts et Artes di Napoli. Foto di Rita A. Fusco
C’è qualcosa di primitivo e apotropaico nelle opere di Rezzuti, qualcosa che ci appartiene, un’intimità che...

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Over the past year we’ve worked hard to make Shutter Hub more accessible than ever. Our community has grown stronger, and we’ve created the greatest number of opportunities in Shutter Hub history.
Here are a few milestones from 2025 that we’d love to look back on with you…
A New Chapter
 2025 was a year of important, meaningful change. To celebrate a decade of Shutter Hub, we completely relaunched our platform as a membership-free, open, and inclusive resource for photographers worldwide.
There was no doubt in our minds that this was the right thing to do and the natural next step, but we didn’t know how people would respond. Your response was incredible! We received so much support from our...

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“I don't aim for my art to be political, but because I have my own perspective and worldview, that inevitably comes through in the art,” says Shyama Golden. Read Silke Tudor's full article on the artist by clicking above.
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Max Seckel's paintings are all about the details. His landscapes come alive with the messy signs of humanity: a traffic cone standing in a puddle surrounded by a weedy yard; a utility pole teetering behind a dumpster; streams of yellow tape banding around trees. Read more about the article by clicking above!
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Mapping decolonial futures through material memory, political imagination, and the art of world-making Installation view of Gondwana la fabrique du futur , by Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, during the 36th Bienal de São Paulo © Natt Fejfar / […]

 
AUTO PHOTO Awards 2025’s Peoples’ Choice Award winner Max Edleston takes us behind the scenes and shares the story behind his award-winning image, Dancing in the Rain, and the rest of the images made during the shoot. 
“I’m incredibly grateful and blown away that the public chose my work for the People’s Choice Award. Seeing the absolutely stunning photography in the top 100 has been inspiring. I want to thank all my fellow photographers on that list; your high-quality of work pushes us all to work harder and smarter to create truly exceptional images. I’m also truly honoured that the judging panel highly commended my image in the motorsport category. As someone still finding their feet in the...

Oluremi C. Onabanjo, The Peter Schub Curator in The Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, reflects on archives, authorship, and Pan-African imagination in Ideas of Africa. Oumar Ka, Untitled (Two […]