In a new book, German scholar Christof Metzger also argues that a portrait of a woman in Vienna is ten years older than thought

The young Pakistan-born, New York-based artist is showing new works from her Doha residency programme at Art Basel Qatar

The Doha-based patron and dealer wants to develop the commercial gallery scene in Qatar

Several major shows are taking place in the city during the inaugural edition of the fair

The artistic director of the inaugural edition of the Doha-based fair talks us through his highlights

nextoffice uses arched volumes to make up contemporary home
 
The Central Courtyard villa by NextOffice in Lavasan, Iran, follows a tunnel/bar structure that features a continuous arrangement of stacked arches. The result is an intricate residential building with a three-dimensional central courtyard. The project is a contemporary reinterpretation of one of the most enduring elements of Iranian architecture, placing a three-dimensional courtyard at its heart to address climate, privacy, and daily life in a single architectural gesture. NextOffice rethinks the traditional inward-looking courtyard typology, stretching it across the entire footprint of the residence and transforming it into a porous spatial...

Reframing Metal Drywall Guides as Primary Design Material
 
Drywall Collection is a design series that reconsiders a conventional construction system through a set of architectural objects. The collection comprises seating, lighting, and sculptural elements developed through repetition, modularity, and material consistency. By working with standardized components, the project examines how structural logic can inform form, allowing typically concealed systems to become spatial and perceptible.
 
Designed by Claudio Larcher and Sofia D’Andrea, the collection is based on metal drywall guides, technical profiles usually embedded within partition walls and left unseen. These industrial elements are extracted...

Rage, sympathy, and fear for individuals at risk of persecution, deportation, and state-sanctioned murder fill our hearts and our news feeds. We celebrate those who are willing to take a stand in this dangerous and oppressive landscape, when even speaking up can feel like a risk. But is participating in a one-day strike enough? And how is solidarity practiced on the day after?Two stories in today's newsletter prompt readers to ask difficult questions. The first is an in-depth report about tensions between art galleries and street vendors in a Manhattan art hub. The other is artist Damien Davis's opinion piece about the art world's performative allyship. These pieces invite us to think beyond...

The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi, one of India’s leading private art institutions, has announced the appointment of Manuel Rabaté as its first chief executive and director. The Frenchman joins from Louvre Abu Dhabi, where he has served as its inaugural director since the museum opened in 2016.Rabaté’s arrival comes as KNMA prepares for a major expansion that will see it move from its current location inside a shopping mall into a purpose-built museum complex near Indira Gandhi International Airport. Designed by David Adjaye Associates, the massive new campus is expected to open within the next three years, according to a museum spokesperson.Kiran Nadar, who founded KNMA in 2010 and is...

At its heart, Felicità is an exhibition about perception and the quiet optimism found in mindful looking. It explores happiness not as extravagance or display, but as attentiveness, slowness, and curiosity. Luigi Ghirri’s photographs propose the image as a site of reflection rather than consumption, a surface where the world folds back on itself. Photography becomes a thinking tool, a way of rehearsing how reality is constructed, framed, and endlessly reproduced. Felicità insists on consciousness, the ethics of seeing, and the pleasure of recognising the mechanics behind representation. The exhibition encourages viewers to slow down, noticing not just what is seen but how and why it is framed....

matt clark brings united visual artists’ language to casa batlló
 
Casa Batlló unveils Hidden Order, a monumental projection mapping by Matt Clark, founder of United Visual Artists, presented as a free public event on Gaudí’s facade. For the first time, the annual mapping commission also moves indoors, inaugurating a new second-floor space with Beyond the Facade, a site-specific exhibition that extends the project past the street.
 
Conceived as a large-scale audiovisual performance, Hidden Order transforms Casa Batlló’s facade through cycles of light, movement, and sound. Clark approaches Gaudí’s architecture as an active system shaped by geometry, natural laws, and constant transformation. The...

In the Secret Lives of Colour (2016), author Kassia St. Clair recounts the remarkable story of Prussian Blue. It was discovered by accident in the early 1700s, when a paint manufacturer ran out of an ingredient for red pigment. It has since been used extensively in the art world, by everyone from Claude Monet to Anish Kapoor, as well as in pioneering “blueprints” by Sir John Herschel and Anna Atkins. A similar shade is central to Marie Dreezen’s The Bluest of Days, an eerie collection in which sandy beaches – rendered exclusively in blue – appear floodlit by spectral shapes. Windows, projected by an unknown force, appear across empty dunes. There is a feeling of estrangement; these locations, usually...

Scholars Andrew Higgott and Timothy Wray state that “the photograph is not ‘taken’, as in common parlance, but ‘made’.” Far from frozen truths, any pictures we see physically or digitally, circulated at truly overwhelming rates, must be understood as constructions. In the age of the Internet and AI, it is necessary to stay vigilant about how visual media is never neutral, but instead provides a carefully assembled, often manipulated representation of a person or place. This should lead us, as viewers, to a constant, essential – if tiresome – line of questioning: who made the image, and why? A new book by Professor Ari Seligmann – author, longtime researcher in Japan, and Associate Dean of...

Amber Creswell Bell is an author of seven books. Her titles are, characteristically, “not elitist anthologies of ‘best in show’ artists.” Instead, she’s dedicated to exploring “the very humanness of art” – looking for those who demonstrate “bravery, authenticity and sensitivity.” The latest is Exposure, a who’s who of contemporary image-makers from Australia and New Zealand. There are 40 names, from proponents of point-and-shoot to those who meticulously plan each frame. Featured creatives include Atong Atem, whose portraits explore the history of studio photography in Africa, as well as playful images by Gerwyn Davies, who constructs elaborate costumes to transform the body into...

Amsterdam-based fine art photographer Henri Blommers experiments with a variety of analogue cameras and creative techniques: cooking film in plant material, spraying it with agricultural chemicals or soaking negatives in salt for weeks. Blommers’ images are socially and ecologically engaged, exploring pressing topics like plastic pollution, rising sea levels or species under threat. He is also interested in the effects of mass digitisation. Moreover, the artist is co-creator of Hello Gorgeous magazine, fighting stigma around HIV. The Garden ofHenri project, in which light-dappled petals and leaves drift in and out of focus, emerged in 2020. “In March, the world went on lockdown for everyone. After my...

lammhults design group opens new stockholm space
 
Lammhults Design Group opens a new showroom in central Stockholm, unveiled during Stockholm Design Days 2026 and designed by Note Design Studio. At Norrlandsgatan 20, the space unfolds gradually, moving away from the idea of a showroom as a display and instead operating as a shared environment where furniture, acoustics, light, and material choices shape how workspaces are experienced and inhabited.
 
Note Design Studio co-founder Cristiano Pigazzini takes on the role of creative advisor for Lammhults Design Group, extending his involvement beyond the architecture of the showroom to the broader creative direction of the group. The work begins with a close...

BARCELONA HOSTS INTEGRATED SYSTEMS EUROPE 2026 
 
The world’s leading audiovisual (AV) and systems integration exhibition, Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), returns to the Fira Barcelona Gran Via from February 3–6, 2026, to provide experience-enhancing AV solutions for luxury and wellness focused residential spaces. A key focus of the 2026 edition is how professionally installed music systems integrate into the smart home as a therapeutic asset for cognitive function and stress reduction. The event offers an unparalleled showcase of cutting-edge technologies from premium audio brands — including L-Acoustics, Steinway Lyngdorf, Focal, and Waterfall Audio — demonstrating how high-performance sound can...

 
The Shutter Hub OPEN 2026 opened on 19 January 2026 at Art at the ARB at Cambridge University and launched on the 24 January with a private view attended by over 200 guests. The exhibition, which runs until 02 April 2025 and will be part of the Cambridge Festival, brings together 120 international photographers in a selected exhibition promoting the future of photography through diverse and creative imagery – taking over four floors of the ARB building at Cambridge University, transforming the space and covering the walls with hundreds of images printed by our favourite newspaper print partners Newspaper Club.
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The latest batch of documents released by the Department of Justice as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act includes references to two leading art collectors, Steve Tisch and Jean Pigozzi. The DOJ’s library of documents have been added to over the past several days, with the latest update occurring on Saturday, January 31. The documents, primarily in the form of emails sent around 2013, appear to show convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connecting Tisch, a film producer and co-owner of the New York Giants, with multiple women. The news was first reported on by the Athletic. In one email chain, from April 2013, which has the subject line “Ukrainian Girl,” Tisch asks Epstein if he knows any...

With Siegfried, the directorial vision of the Paris Opera's Ring cycle finally takes root.

This is the classic Onegin and there's much to love, especially from Khaikin's sensitive conducting and Lemeshev's ideal Lensky.

La maggior parte delle persone pensa che Torino sia stata una città centrale per l’Arte Povera, sia perché molti artisti vi risiedevano e poi perché in quegli anni di piombo vi operavano gallerie come Gian Enzo Sperone, Tucci Russo e Christian Stein. In realtà anche Genova è stata un punto di riferimento importante. Basti pensare a Ida Gianelli (che in seguito diventerà direttrice del Castello di Rivoli) e a tutto il lavoro di supporto che diede agli autori sostenuti da Germano Celant con l’attività della Saman Gallery, a partire dal 1972. Ricordiamo in particolare le mostre dedicate a Giovanni Anselmo, Sol LeWitt, Giuseppe Penone, Hans Haacke e così via. Ovviamente non sono mancate altre gallerie,...

I FIRST BEGAN INTERVIEWING the iconic Fluxus visual and performance artist Alison Knowles nearly twenty years ago in her beloved studio loft in SoHo, where she had lived and worked since the early 1970s. Often sitting on chairs around a low table and sipping on earthy matcha or lunching on salads and the tuna fish […]

On institution building in the Gulf

FATIMA HELLBERG is a curator and general director of the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (MUMOK). Previously, Hellberg served as director of Bonner Kunstverein (2019–25) and artistic director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2015–19). She has curated exhibitions and projects at institutions including the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Tate Modern and […]

IN THE SUMMER OF 2009, I flagrantly ignored the sound counsel of my lawyer boyfriend (now husband) by signing Deitch Projects’s mandatory waiver ensuring that I would “assume and accept all risk and liability for losses, damages, expenses, personal injuries, and death” resulting from entering Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe’s Black Acid Co-op. This sprawling […]

On Molière and his merry band of hypocrites

A piece by Lauren Moya Ford in this edition explores a Barcelona show about Joan Miró's fascination with the United States. “In the future world, America, with its energy and vitality, must play a leading role,” he once told Matisse. It makes you wonder: How would Miró feel about the US today?Not too good, I assume. In today's America, artists pay tribute to Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse slain by federal agents in Minneapolis. In Philadelphia, artist-made road signs warn of fascism ahead. Meanwhile, the country might lose its art market dominance due to Trump's brute immigration policies. On a lighter note, we have great reviews for you from Carolina A. Miranda, Lori Waxman, and Imani...

An opera about the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics was never going to be an easy task.

Francesco Lauretta è nato a Ispica, nel 1964, e dopo aver trascorso alcuni anni a Torino è approdato e Firenze, dove attualmente risiede e ha lo studio. È un artista poliedrico che declina la pittura di impianto figurativo con le installazioni, la scultura e i materiali più eterogenei. La rivista si è occupata di lui in varie riprese, dedicandogli una copertina e organizzandogli una mostra nel lontano 2005: “Tenetevi svegli!”. Ora, in occasione della sua mostra da Giovanni Bonelli, abbiamo incontrato l’autore per percorrere assieme a lui i contenuti di questa nuova avventura.
Vista parziale della mostra “Parade” di Francesco Lauretta alla Galleria Giovanni Bonelli di Milano. Ph Francesca...

Chung Sang-hwa, a central figure in Korean modern art, died on January 28 after a prolonged illness. He was 93. The news was reported by the Korea Times. Chung is best known for his affiliation with Dansaekhwa (or “monochrome painting”), a mode of abstract art that emerged in the mid-1970s in Korea and which found new interest in the West in the 21st century. With roots in Korea’s earlier, more expressive Informel painting of the late 1950s and 1960s, Dansaekhwa was distinguished by labor-intensive processes, repetitive gestures, and low-key palette. In addition to Chung, practitioners associated with Dansaekhwa include Park Seo-Bo, Lee Ufan, and Yun Hyong-Keun, among others. In keeping with Dansaekhwa...

Today, January 30, art galleries and cultural organizations across the country are shuttering in solidarity with immigrants amid violent crackdowns. Many public gestures of support are unfolding in New York City, but two weeks ago, a group of Tribeca galleries met to discuss asking the city to address an influx of street vendors in the area, Hyperallergic learned. On January 15, months after federal agents descended on Canal Street in a targeted vendor raid, representatives for a group of galleries near Lower Manhattan’s Canal Street met at Alexander Gray Associates to discuss “safety” and “accessibility” issues associated with local street vendors on Broadway, according to communications obtained...

Over the last few days, my feed has filled up with galleries posting statements about standing in solidarity with protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Black text on white backgrounds. Thoughtful fonts. Promises to “hold space” and “support our communities.”As activists across the United States call for a nationwide strike against ICE today, the question facing cultural institutions is not whether to take sides rhetorically, but whether their material practices can withstand the moral pressure of the moment. I don’t doubt that many of the people writing these statements mean them. But in the art world, sincerity has a way of settling into style while the underlying terms of...

Eugène Atget, "Vaux-de-Cernay" (1908–10/1908–27) (photo courtesy the International Center of Photography; all other photos Julia Curl/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)It wouldn’t be wrong to say that Eugène Atget, one of photography’s major figures for almost a century now, is in danger of seeming old hat. So when the International Center of Photography promised “a new approach to the story of Atget’s career” with its exhibition Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, I took the bait. (What exciting new revelations might lie in store?) Alas, that line turned out to be a bit of PR propaganda. The exhibition rehashes the now-familiar story of how Atget would have languished in obscurity if...

Archaeologists in southern Mexico have unearthed a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb bearing intricate carvings, a discovery hailed by experts as “the most significant” of the last decade.  The tomb was discovered in San Pablo Huitzo, Oaxaca, and dates to around the year 600 CE, according to a statement released last week by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Experts have noted the exceptional preservation of the burial chamber’s features, including a sculpture of an owl perched at its entrance. A sculpture of a man’s head is visible inside the owl’s beak, thought to represent the individual interred within the tomb, the INAH said. The Zapotec language is still spoken by...

The Baltimore Museum of Art has added 250 artworks in the past six months to its encyclopedic collection. The wide-ranging acquisitions—from all over the world and spanning centuries—“reflect the museum’s focus on expanding the range of global voices represented within its collection,” according to a statement released by the museum. More than half of the new works—180 in total—are part of an anonymous gift of contemporary art by 63 different artists, among Gina Beavers, Lucas Blalock, Alex Da Corte, Juliana Huxtable, and Martine Syms. In late 2020, the BMA faced widespread scrutiny when it announced that it would deaccession three blue-chip paintings in order to raise $65 million, which would be...

CHENNAI, INDIA—The Times of India reports that the bones of 28 different animals have been identified at Molapalayam, a Neolithic site in the southernmost state of Tamil Nadu. “A faunal analysis reveals that people who lived here constituted a pastoral community that reared cattle, sheep, and goat,” said archaeologist V. Selvakumar of Tamil University. “They also hunted animals such as deer and antelope. Their food also included a diverse range of small millets and pulses,” Selvakumar added. Among the many animal bones, the researchers identified four bones of an Indian rhinoceros, which lives in grasslands and marshes. “This is a significant find as rhinos survived [in southern India] up to the...

With dye-like paints on raw linen, Pedro Pedro creates vivid still lifes. He depicts bounties of fruit, large
bouquets of flowers in full bloom, piles of clothes, and tables overflowing with art supplies—juxtaposing
both tidy and disheveled scenes of abundance throughout his body of work... Read the full article by clicking above!
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KONYA, TURKEY—According to a Türkiye Today report, an intact cross made of two pieces of bronze riveted together has been uncovered in central Turkey by İlker Mete Mimiroğlu of Necmettin Erbakan University. The artifact, which has been dated to sometime between the ninth and eleventh centuries a.d., was found in a church cemetery in the ancient city of Lystra. Such small containers were used to hold sacred objects or relics associated with Christian worship. Mimiroğlu said that similar broken reliquaries have been unearthed in the city, but this is the first to be found in a sealed condition without a mechanism to open and close it. A small piece of fabric is visible within the cross through a small gap,...

VIENNA, AUSTRIA—According to a statement released by the University of Vienna, an international team of researchers has identified a rare genetic condition in the remains of a mother and daughter who were buried in an embrace in the same grave more than 12,000 years ago. The burial was discovered in 1963 at Grotta del Romito in southern Italy. Romito 1, the remains of a woman who stood under five feet tall, held the remains of Romito 2, an adolescent girl with pronounced limb shortening, and an estimated height of about 3.5 feet. DNA analysis also showed that the daughter carried two copies of a variant in the NPR2 gene, confirming a diagnosis of acromesomelic dysplasia, Maroteaux type, a rare inherited...

Todd Schorr creates weird and ambitious works that feel like fever dreams about death, sex, and a fear that the good times are long gone. Read the full article by clicking above!
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Ponchielli goes east with mixed results in I Lituani.

Both performances moved me profoundly and served as a form of catharsis, ending a challenging 2025 with a glimmer of hope for the future

Entrare nella galleria di Alfonso Artiaco a Napoli per la personale di Achille Perilli significa immergersi in una sfida intellettuale che dura da oltre settant’anni. Non siamo di fronte a una geometria rassicurante, figlia di righello e compasso, ma a un’eversione sistematica della logica euclidea. L’artista romano, scomparso nel 2021, ha passato la vita a “smontare” lo spazio, e questa mostra ne ripercorre i momenti più densi, laddove il segno si fa struttura di un pensiero ribelle.
Achille Perilli solo show, installation view at Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli, ph. Grafiluce, courtesy Alfonso Artiaco
Perilli è stato, insieme a colleghi come Dorazio e Turcato, il motore di quella rivoluzione chiamata...

Disembodied heads, eyes, and hands meet spindly trees, dragonflies, and vibrant blossoms in the folk-art inspired works of Michael McGrath. Based in Rhinebeck, New York, McGrath melds a variety of media—most pieces contain a mixture of graphite, ink, and oil and acrylic paints—into dynamic compositions suffuse with mystery. Recurring symbols and objects lend themself to a distinctive visual language that captures both the wondrous and puzzling. McGrath is preparing for solo exhibitions in Saugerties, New York, and Kent, Connecticut, later this year, along with a few group shows. Keep up with his work on Instagram. “Intro to ceremonial lighting cycles,” colored pencil, wax pastel and acrylic on panel,...

Regina Silveira has spent the better part of three decades considering the relationship between media and meaning, particularly as it relates to Latin America. Based in São Paulo, Silveira is a pioneer of Brazilian conceptual art who is known for utilizing light, installation, and photos to consider how images circulate and tell stories. One of her projects working in this vein is Latin American Puzzle, a series that assembles sprawling visual narratives like jigsaws. First presented in 1997, “To Be Continued…” features 100 black-and-white reproductions of photos, newspaper clippings, propaganda, advertisements, and more. Silveira nests each image into an oversized puzzle piece, which cuts off faces and...

Mycenaean krater with octopus decoration LARNAKA, CYPRUS—Kathimerini Cyprus reports that chamber tombs dated to the fourteenth century B.C. have been uncovered at the archaeological site of Hala Sultan Tekke, a Bronze Age port city on the southern coast of Cyprus. Copper mined from the island’s Troodos Mountains was processed locally and shipped out from Hala Sultan Tekke, producing great wealth. Archaeologist Peter M. Fischer of the University of Gothenburg said that the tombs had been reused for generations before they collapsed in antiquity, damaging some of their contents. DNA analysis of the human remains could reveal kinship ties among the dead, who are thought to have been elites involved in copper...

CHENNAI, INDIA—The Times of India reports that a well-preserved, eight-foot iron spear dated to some 5,300 years ago has been found in a burial at the site of Thirumalapuram, which is located in India’s southernmost state of Tamil Nadu. The spear, which is rounded at one end, is said to be the longest iron implement dated to the Iron Age to be unearthed in India. “We found two spears placed in an ‘X’ formation next to an urn,” said archaeologist K. Vasanthakumar of the Tamil Nadu state department of archaeology. “One was eight feet long and the other 6.5 feet. There were also gold objects inside the urn,” he added. The spears may have been used in battle, but it is also possible that the...

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter.   Open Calls The Other Art Fair Brooklyn Spring 2026 (International)From May 14 to 17, 2026, The Other Art Fair returns to Brooklyn and seeks applications for general booths and the New Futures program, which awards a free booth space to an early-career artist.Deadline: February 1, 2026. Quilt Visions 2026 (International)Visions Museum of Textile Art in San Diego invites entries for Quilt Visions 2026, the museum’s 27th international juried exhibition. Exhibition jurors will select work exemplifying...

Written and edited by Tanlume Enyatseng, this studio conversation brings Congolese painter MUMBY and photographer Hélène Feuillebois together to reflect on presence, visibility, and the quiet labour of being seen in contemporary Paris. © Hélène […]

‘Sunkissed’ examines visual culture in a rapidly transforming Gulf Ahaad Alamoudi, Those Who Don’t Know Falcons Grill Them (still), (2018). Image courtesy of the artist. Ahaad Alamoudi’s exhibition ‘Sunkissed’, presented at Sharjah Art Foundation, unites […]

Murals and installations across a historic neighbourhood in Dubai Courtesy of Dubai Culture & Arts Authority. The 14th edition of Sikka Art & Design Festival transforms Al Shindagha Historic Neighbourhood into an open-air site for […]

Vivere il presente senza avere la certezza di come sarà il domani. Vivere e sentire che la disillusione sociale propone aspettative che la realtà in primis non delinea. Questo è il topic della mostra ancora in corso a Bari e dal titolo “Storiellette”, visitabile fino al 22 febbraio 2026 presso VOGA Art Project, progetto dedicato alla ricerca, produzione e valorizzazione dell’arte contemporanea in Puglia. Nella loro bi-personale, peraltro l’ultima inserita all’interno della programmazione dell’anno appena trascorso, Gianni D’Urso e Giuseppe De Mattia propongono visioni ed estetiche proprie di questo secolo, attraverso linguaggi e media differenti che restituiscono uno sguardo ironico e...

Dear readers, I recently picked up Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam’s bestselling book about the collapse of community in the U.S. At a whopping 581 pages, this veritable doorstop is a trove of data and insight into our increasingly isolated world. First published in 2000, before the internet exponentially diverted our attention from the physical world, the book reveals what is today common knowledge: we’re trending toward individualism rather than real social connection. Bowling Alone surfaced from my TBR pile because Christopher and I are writing a book about community art (forthcoming from Artisan in 2027) and have been researching not only artists and projects but also why so many people, us included, have...