Germany and the Netherlands have agreed to return 2,000 culturally significant artifacts to Ghana, which were taken from the country during the colonial era. The announcement was made at Next Steps, a conference held last week in the Ghanaian capital of Accra. The conference, hosted by John Dramani Mahama, the president of Ghana, was organized in response to the United Nations’ declaration, on March 25, 2026, that the trafficking of enslaved Africans and subsequent racialized chattel enslavement of Africans qualified as the “gravest crime against humanity.” The goal of the Next Steps conference was to translate the UN resolution into a “common framework of actionable commitments for a just and...

Along the one-mile Knicks Parade route, which drew 2 million fans, the energy was palpable and electrifying. (© Danielle De Jesus)When I think of the New York Knicks, I think of watching the boys I grew up with, running around in their Ewing Jerseys playing basketball on the streets of Bushwick, a makeshift hoop made from a milk crate with the bottom cut out of it, nailed to a wooden backboard, hanging from whatever would hold it steady. Many of these kids could only dream of attending a live Knicks game. On Saturday, June 13, 2026, those kids, now adults, would witness the New York Knicks’ first NBA championship title in 53 years. But this win is much bigger than rings and trophies. This victory was...

Trump's plan to make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool "American Flag Blue" went south when a naturally occurring algae bloom moved in. (@philippe.collignon2d via Instagram, all screenshots Hyperallergic)Just in time for AlgaeBTQ+ Pride month, President Trump’s paint is peeling faster than a bad sunburn from the floor of the barf-green Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.Earlier this year, the Trump administration coated the historic pool in Washington, DC, with a pigment he dubbed “American Flag Blue” to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday. But as the water bubbled back into the reflecting pool this month, so has a torrent of rather memeable problems. Don't fall for it, you might end up...

Artists and performers of all kinds flocked to Wilshire Boulevard for the city's first Art Parade

vanessa german, “The Girl Who Had The Idea” (2026), wood, Spirit-girl, wire-mesh, cups running over with love, a dream in a dreamer-girl, imagination-girl, (they say her face lit up brand-new when she smiled light fell out of her teeth and bloomed a warm radiance in everyone around her— she could see her way through. She was an in-between girl.) She was the youngest girl, antique step ladder, Astro turf, 100 crystals of light, knowing in your heart of hearts, lemon quartz, keys, porcelain forms, yellow beads, love, glass beads, a joyful spirit, old soda bottles, beaded glass trim, the sound of “yes” in your Soul, beaded glass trim, metal mesh, glass merkeba carved wood feet ashtrays, gourds, glass...

The chaos and confusion that have roiled the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since President Donald Trump set it in his sights continues as the institution’s management said it won’t reschedule shows even though its proposed closure was blocked by a federal judge. As reported by U.S. News & World Report, “Kennedy Center lawyers said the institution plans to ‘maintain an operational model’ after the July 5 date when it was initially scheduled to shutter for renovations.” But, per the lawyers’ filing on Friday, “the Court’s order did not affirmatively require the Board to reschedule programming that had previously been cancelled or to seek new programming”—meaning the Kennedy...

Israeli artist Yaacov Agam, known for his optical and kinetic artworks, has died at 98. The news was reported by outlets including the Times of Israel, Haaretz, and the Jerusalem Post. The son of an Orthodox rabbi, Agam was born Yaacov Gipstein in Rishon LeZion, Palestine (now Israel), in 1928. After studying art in Jerusalem, he traveled to Zurich in 1949 to study with artist Johannes Itten, who introduced him to Bauhaus ideas on color and abstraction; he was also influenced by Vasily Kandinsky’s 1911 treatise, On the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular. In 1951, he moved to Paris, where he was still living at the time of his death. Agam’s first solo exhibition was in 1953 at Galerie Craven in...

The free digital resource, from the National Coalition Against Censorship, comes as artists navigate an increasingly censorious cultural landscape

Ryan Heshka has a longtime love of science fiction, four-color printed comics from the 1950s and ‘60s and mid-twentieth-century mutant movie characters. In his comic Frog Wife, he taps into these influences while adding in a dose of contemporary themes, drawing upon not just the “anxiety of nuclear annihilation” that inspired so much twentieth-century pop […]
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The currently highly put-upon National Trust for Historic Preservation nonprofit unanimously elected a new president, the organization announced on Monday. Brent Leggs, formerly the executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, will become the National Trust’s eleventh president since its founding in 1949. Leggs is also joining the institution at a pivotal […]

Police conducting what The Telegraph described as a “routine narcotics raid” at a suburban Paris home discovered a painting by Pablo Picasso that had been stolen from its Singapore-based owner, Artnet News reports. Valued at up to $17 million, the painting has not yet been publicly identified but is reported by French newspaper Le Parisien […]

One artist recalled a client asking her to recreate an AI-generated reference image in her style. Another was told to “get over it” when she voiced hesitations about using generative technology. A motion graphic designer said he was certain he’d lose his job. An editorial cartoonist whose work is often political, based on his own upbringing in a dictatorship, observed that “AI has no history, it has no soul.” Still others said they embrace AI as a “tool.”In a new short documentary from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), artists and creative workers get candid about generative technology, sharing their fears, ethical qualms, and real-life experiences. The 19-minute film,...

Thousands of handmade ceramic tiles nest together like a puzzle on the facade of the Torre San Luis hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico. Abstract shapes evocative of a lush garden ecosystem burst across the outdoor wall in a collaboration between Alex Proba and the artisans of Cerámica Suro. Titled “Shape of Movement,” the large-scale public work melds Proba’s organic visual language with a color palette that reflects the local environment. Earthy neutrals, alongside dusty pinks and blues, mimic the sun-drenched landscape, while the dynamic forms appear as if they’re mid-motion. “The work is about the movement we carry through spaces every day,” Proba shares. “I wanted the mural to feel as if the...

The tours created and led by the artist and curator Aislinn Pentecost-Farren are part of the ArtPhilly 2026 festival

The western pediment of the Parthenon, one of the main attractions of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, has been partially restored to its full splendor and was unveiled to the public last Thursday. The western flank of the temple is now viewable in the most complete state it’s been in in over two centuries. The restoration […]

Karolina Halatek’s Echo explores light, space, and perception
 
Echo by Karolina Halatek, located within Istanbul’s renowned Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM), offers a somaesthetic exploration of light, space, and perception. Its open form allows visitors to enter the installation. They can pause and observe the relationship between their body and the space. The shift in perspective, from an external, object-oriented point of view to an inward gaze, creates a new dimension, a new reality in which the viewer becomes the central point. In the context of working with trauma, the body’s memory plays a crucial role. As Gabor Maté notes: ‘People who have experienced trauma often disconnect from their bodies...

Whether it’s a large-scale wallpaper reproduction of Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or pages of deconstructed Artforum magazines, David Daigle’s detailed punch-cut compositions delve into the material and conceptual possibilities of layers, depth, and what is revealed or concealed. Daigle’s forthcoming exhibition, The Death of Beauty at Track 16, investigates intersections of identity, consumer culture, and desire through a kind of sedimentary approach to commercial imagery, which he excavates with precise holes each revealing tiny tableaux. This method of décollage, which involves building up the surface and then removing elements, literally peels away the meanings and intentions behind...

The influential pair sit down to discuss the history of their gallery, the circumstances that led to its closure, and why the art world is failing their model.

Twenty-three years before releasing his breakout film Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death, and while still working primarily as a cinematographer, artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa wrote a review of the Hughes brothers’ Menace II Society in the Summer 1993 issue of Artforum, using the LA crime drama as a springboard for expressing Jafa’s larger impressions of the […]

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Idan Gilony reflects on food as a medium, leaving fashion behind, creative risk and why meaningful experiences matter more than aesthetics alone.

Madonna collects her. Her work sets auction records for women artists. Netflix is developing a series about her. She’s the subject of an opera. Now, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo has another claim to fame. “Frida: The Making of an Icon,” opening this month at London’s Tate Modern, has pre-sold 41,000 tickets, a record for the institution, reports the Guardian. That beats the 32,000 advance sales for the museum’s 2017 David Hockney exhibition. “We’re pretty blown away by it,” Catherine Wood, Tate Modern’s interim director, told the publication. The museum is billing the show as the first major exhibition to explore how Kahlo became a “global icon” and a major influence on a generation of...

By Melanie Chapman There is much to appreciate about the new pop-up exhibition Hospital of Emotions, currently on view at St. Vincent Medical Center (2131 W. Third Street, Los Angeles) until July 31. But if you want to maximize the benefits of your visit, avoid the bombardment of images now flooding the internet and even consider not reading this review. Like seeing all the best parts of a movie by watching the trailer, it is better to just go, and go soon, with as little advanced exposure as...

a room above the bike racks
 
In Munich, a small timber structure now rises above the bicycle racks outside a residential building, its pale pink frame lifting a room-sized volume into a pocket of street space usually given over to passing traffic.
 
Called ZuHaus, the temporary structure by architect Clemens Hoyer turns a familiar edge of the road into a place that can be booked, occupied, furnished, and tested by the people who live around it.
 
The project will stand from May 29th to July 31st, 2026, as a real-world urban laboratory, or Reallabor, asking what can happen when a parking bay is treated as shared neighborhood infrastructure. Instead of treating the street as leftover space, Hoyer gives it a...

For Willie Cole, the convergence of material and concept are as important as emotional and even spiritual links to history. Whether repurposing salvaged musical instruments, creating enigmatic visages from stacked stilettos, or arranging hundreds of single-use plastic bottles across a surface, his imaginative sculptural assemblages tap into a range of global traditions, eras, and social and environmental issues. Cole explores our associations with physical objects by removing them from the context within which we’re accustomed to encountering them. Time-honored African masking traditions and figurative sculptures made of high heels meet modern symbols of labor and culture, such as repeated ironing board...

Good Morning! Multi-hyphenate artist Daniel “Danny” Simmons has died at age 72.  Only two people attended David Hockney’s funeral last week, per his last wishes. At the Obama Presidential Center opening on June 19, the former president warned against those who “see government as nothing more than a way to divvy up the spoils.” The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Artist, activist, philanthropist, and community leader Daniel “Danny” Simmons has died at 72, reports ARTnews’ Brian Boucher. Simmons was the older brother of hip-hop star Russel Simmons and rapper Joseph Simmons, known as Rev Run, of the group Run-DMC. The three brothers co-founded the New York gallery Rush Arts and the Rush...

Interaction design determines not just how technology works, but who it works for. At the George Washington University's Corcoran School of Arts and Design, faculty are bringing this concept directly into the classroom by centering those most excluded and impacted by design. The Interaction Design program allows students to learn whose needs are prioritized, whose voices are omitted, and how design choices create or dismantle power structures through rigorous human-centered research, prototyping, and ethical inquiry.In emphasizing and teaching the critical design process, the Interaction Design program at the GW Corcoran is developing a pedagogy of partnerships through several of its classes, such as...

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Basquiat – Headstrong at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art brought together 50 works focused on the human head

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According to dealer Martyn Downer, the silver plate of the exiled monarch could be “the only coffin plate of a Queen of England that will ever be on the market”

eva jospin turns discarded cardboard to immersive landscapes
 
For decades, conversations about the future have been dominated by innovation. New technologies, new materials, faster systems, smarter tools. Yet some of the most compelling visions of tomorrow are emerging from a very different place: the preservation of craft, material knowledge, and the human capacity to shape meaning through making. Few artists embody that shift more powerfully than Eva Jospin.
 
Working primarily with discarded cardboard, the French artist constructs vast forests, grottoes, architectural follies, and imaginary landscapes that seem to exist somewhere between archaeology and fantasy. Through thousands of cuts, layers, and...

self-powered capsule tests water quality
 
Researchers from Yonsei University in South Korea, working with collaborators from the University of Bath, Renmin University of China, and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, propose a self-powered floating capsule that detects water quality and disinfects microorganisms without batteries, external power sources, or chemical additives. Published in Nature Water, the study presents an all-in-one device designed for decentralized water treatment, addressing a global challenge that continues to affect billions of people without reliable access to safe drinking water.
 
The floating-induced detection-guided disinfection (FDGD) capsule combines water...

An arena-like space by Ferruccio Laviani provided a fitting stage for the Italian manufacturer’s increasingly sophisticated design collection.  
It was a bit surreal, to be honest with you. I’d tripped along to the MARA stand at this year’s Salone del Mobile to conduct an interview with long-established (and, no, that’s not an euphemistic way of saying older) Italian designer Ferruccio Laviani, who, as well as contributing to the manufacturer’s increasingly sophisticated product portfolio, had created their fair-stand concept – a kind of micro abstraction of an ancient arena in which visitors, upon entering, found themselves surrounded by the brand’s latest products, displayed on ascending...

The divine Dame Janet Baker never sang at the Metropolitan, sadly for American audiences.

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Miriam Cahn propone una visione e la impone come dato. La retrospettiva al MACRO di Roma, la prima in Italia di questa ampiezza, è un campo di attrito in cui cinquant’anni di opere costringono il corpo a misurarsi con la propria esposizione all’abuso. Guardare, qui, indica essere guardati. Il titolo, Ciò che mi guarda, ribalta la direzionalità dello scrupolo con una minuzia tutt’altro che retorica. Lo spettatore smarrisce qualunque ubicazione esterna: viene convocato in una relazione che esclude neutralità e divario gestibile. Il visivo funziona da contatto diretto, pressione, più che raffigurazione. Curata da Cristiana Perrella e allestita da Didier Fiúza Faustino // Bureau des Mésarchitectures,...

Wolf Trap Opera triumphs in a fizzy, fun Cenerentola.

We had to wait for Marian Anderson to break the color barrier at the Met and many great Black opera singers never had a chance there.

Dallo Studio Tommaseo a una rete internazionale di curatori e artisti: Giuliana Carbi Jesurun racconta il percorso e la visione di un centro culturale che ha deciso di guardare oltre, rivolgendosi a Est, in un progetto che parte negli anni ‘70 e che continua ancora oggi a evolversi.
“Dialoghi Lituani”, 1997, mostra alla Stazione Marittima di Trieste, in primo piano le sculture imbottite di Darius Bastys, foto Tiziano Neppi, courtesy Trieste Contemporanea
Veronica Rinaldi: Ci potrebbe raccontare com’è nata Trieste Contemporanea?
Giuliana Carbi Jesurun: Trieste Contemporanea è nata perché in una Trieste che voleva essere contemporanea era doveroso guardare a Est. I nostri Dialoghi con l’arte...

Durante i giorni della Biennale, Venezia continua a funzionare come un sistema poroso, dove ogni intervento si innesta su stratificazioni già presenti senza mai cancellarle del tutto. In questo contesto, la Cappella di Santa Maria della Pietà accoglie Vessels of Other Worlds di Wallace Chan come una deviazione silenziosa rispetto al flusso espositivo diffuso in città. Non si tratta di un’occupazione dello spazio, ma di una sua lenta modulazione, in cui la materia sembra reagire più che dichiararsi. L’impatto visivo, per chi entra nell’edificio progettato da Giorgio Massari, è un’alterazione improvvisa della luce: la pietra e i marmi storici della chiesa settecentesca entrano in contrasto con la...

Calligraphy is an ancient art with roots across the globe, dating back to early Chinese dynasties and Greek civilization, all through the Italian Renaissance. But one glance at a work by San Francisco-based artist Hunter Saxony III, and your understanding of calligraphy will be turned on its head. In an approach that is varied, yet […]
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The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

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Leyla Gencer had a long European career but never sang at the Met.

Nello spazio del foglio i segni tracciati da Kazuko Miyamoto si muovono liberi. Gli ideogrammi animano la superficie della pagina in una raffinata sequenza di passi e movimenti, alla stregua di una danza, così come i tocchi di inchiostro e colore sono coinvolti in un moto perpetuo di aggregazione e disgregazione. Sulla carta non esiste possibilità di correzione e ripensamento, e ciò non per puntigliosa ed esteriore regola di gioco, ma perché la scrittura rappresenta il diagramma continuo d’un fluire a cui sono ignote le soste.[1]
Kazuko Miyamoto, “Dancing around the entrance to the cellar”, exhibition view, courtesy Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Roma
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Think for a second about what comes to mind when you hear “soda.” Perhaps fizzy, saccharine, and bright? Then consider the connotations of the word “sour.” Maybe it evokes the zing of a lemon, tanginess, or something sharper. This is the relationship that forms the basis of Sour Soda Studio, a project built upon two decades of illustration experience with a playful and slightly unsettling view of some of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene. “It didn’t come from a change of direction, or from a manifesto,” says the artist, who prefers to remain unnamed. “It came from something simpler: the need to say different things with a different voice.” In these vibrant, often absurd works with...

Raised in a wealthy, well-connected family in England, the young Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) glommed onto stories her mother and grandmother told of Celtic folk tales about mythical beings in Ireland. Her imagination ran rampant as a child, and a rebellious spirit earned her expulsion from more than one convent school for antics like writing backwards and even trying to levitate. Later, her father insisted she be presented to the court of King George V at a debutante ball and was expected to “marry well.” Art and fantasy continued to call to Carrington, though, and not to be sallied by social convention, she attended the Chelsea School of Art, discovered Surrealism at the 1936 International Surrealist...

After success at the Met as Turandot and before a historic Medea, soprano Anna Pirozzi talks to Harry Rose about her voice, her repertoire, and where her "second explosion of career" is taking her.

La Galleria de’ Foscherari di Bologna ha inaugurato Merci Satie, una personale dedicata al rapporto tra Aldo Mondino e la musica, costruita attorno alla figura di Erik Satie. Più che un semplice omaggio, il percorso espositivo mette in scena una domanda da sempre centrale nella ricerca dell’artista: come può la pittura trattenere ciò che per natura scorre, come il suono, il ritmo, il movimento di un corpo? Satie, figura fondamentale della musica tra Otto e Novecento, diventa per Mondino non soltanto un riferimento culturale, ma quasi un metodo. Nella sua musica, infatti, convivono leggerezza, ironia, malinconia e sospensione; gli stessi elementi che Mondino traduce in immagini attraverso la...

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In the popular imagination, artists are often thought to create for the sake of creating, unfettered by the demands of the market-driven world outside their studios. Though many well-known artists have muddled the boundaries between art and commerce (Jeff Koons comes to mind), the two realms have a contentious relationship. Business savvy artists are often […]
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All images courtesy of the artist and GNYP gallery In Aistė Stancikaitė’s painting “Some Time We Walk Together,” two gloved hands are joined by a set of finger cuffs. The connected, silver rings resemble wedding bands. As for the hands, whether they belong to one or two people is up to the viewer to decide. […]
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