Excavation efforts are set to begin within the next two weeks for President Donald Trump’s controversial “Great Triumphal Arch,” according to a statement Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted on X on Thursday, September 3. The announcement was made before the project has even received the green light from a federal review panel.The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), which evaluates design proposals throughout Washington, DC, preliminarily approved Trump's project on July 9, but issued several comments the president must address before earning the committee's final approval. The NCPC's primary concern is the height of the 250-foot-tall structure, which could violate the 130-foot...

In the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, the irritable protagonist Thelonious “Monk” Ellison describes his work as follows: “I just invent little people in my mind and make them have conversations with each other.” The film, which director Cord Jefferson adapted from Percival Everett’s novel Erasure, grapples with stereotypes and the ways we’re asked to perform our identities. For Monk, this turns into a satirical quest to write a “Black” book under a pen name, which plunges him into an outlandish world of tropes. American Fiction layers farce upon farce and is one of the more searing considerations of the contemporary impulse to leverage identity for nefarious (and capitalist) purposes. In...

LOS ANGELES — After nearly two decades of planning and construction, a spate of layoffs, and staffing controversies, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open its doors to the public later this month in South Los Angeles’s Exposition Park. This week, members of the press were invited to tour the new institution and get a taste of the random and facile smorgasbord of art that awaits visitors. Founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, co-CEO of Ariel Investments, the reportedly $1 billion building designed by Ma Yansong/MAD Architects houses their collection of 40,000 works representing what they call “visual storytelling.” These include illustrations, history paintings, comic...

Bay Area artist Mildred Howard has been named the 2026 recipient of the Artists’ Legacy Foundation’s annual Artist Award, the organization announced on Wednesday.  Howard will receive an “unrestricted merit award of $25,000,” a prize the foundation gives annually to “a painter or sculptor who has made significant contributions to their field and whose work […]

Takumi Wakui + Riho Wakui Architects’ House in Kagurazaka
 
Located on a compact 33 sqm site in Kagurazaka, Tokyo, this four-story wooden residence reinterprets the traditional Japanese machiya as a vertical dwelling. Designed by Takumi Wakui + Riho Wakui Architects as a home for an architect couple, the project examines how daylight, natural ventilation, and spatial openness can be introduced within one of Tokyo’s densely built residential neighborhoods.
 
Research into the site’s history revealed its origins in Edo-period urban subdivisions, where narrow-fronted townhouses, or machiya, developed alongside samurai estates. Successive land divisions produced the compact parcels that characterize the...

"The chaotic nature of Marseille is as much a protagonist as the art itself"

The National Service for Cultural Heritage financed the project at Casa Mouat in Valparaíso, Chile

Welcome to the 353rd installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Rujuta Rao carries a foldable studio wherever she goes, a poetic embrace of her life between continents and mediums.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Rujuta Rao, New York CityHow long have you been working in this space?I've had this itinerant studio since January. I usually set it up in public spaces in New York City.Describe an average day in your studio.I tend to work on multiple projects in a circular manner, moving from one to...

For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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Headquartered in Stockton, California, Blackwing is about finding the joy in analog creative tools at a time when digital devices consume our attention. The manufacturer produces its signature pencils in a series of specialized factories in Japan, where the graphite cores are meticulously processed before being sent to a wood shop. In a behind-the-scenes video, the company shares how that process works, followed by how the utensils begin to take shape. Sandwiched between slats of wood, individual pencils are then sliced and trimmed to their characteristic hexagonal shape. Yet another factory takes care of the painting and labeling, where depending on the style, the pencils can receive up to 10 coats of lacquer...

A new study by two MIT researchers puts forward a framework for addressing just how difficult it may be to definitively connect an AI-generated image to any specific source material

A COURT INSIDE ITSELF
 
Across the tennis court at Felipe Pantone‘s Casa Axis, familiar white lines begin behaving strangely. They follow the expected geometry for a moment, then multiply toward the center, bending through metallic gradients until the entire surface appears to drop away beneath the players. Spanish urban artist Spok Brillor created Hard Court 2 during a 12-day residency at the Valencia creative space, painting an optical version of the court directly into the court itself.
 
The intervention extends a project that began here last year, when Lucas Benarroch, aka MRKA, painted the first Hard Court across the same playing surface. His version loosened tennis geometry through irregular,...

The Fundación Paiz para la Educación y la Cultura has appointed Mexican-born curator Cuauhtémoc Medina, one of Latin America’s best known critics and art historians, curator of the twenty-fifth edition of the Bienal de Arte Paiz, slated to run from November 2027 to February 2028 in Guatemala City and Antigua, Guatemala. Founded in 1978, the […]

Preservation specialists are pressing ahead, despite no guarantee that the US-Israel war on Iran is over

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This September in partnership with New York Textile Month, Scandinavia House presents the third iteration of NORDIC TEXTILE TAKEOVER, an exhibition, workshop series and symposium highlighting contemporary Nordic Textiles. This year’s program, THE COLD STITCH, celebrates textile art as a living and evolving practice deeply rooted in the cultures of the North, where a strong tradition of working with textiles as an art form exists as stitching continues to mend, preserve and reimagine the world around us.On view from September 4-16, the exhibition brings together artists from across the Nordic region whose practices engage with textiles as both a material and language. These include Margrethe Aanestad...

In his essay “The Passing Wisdom of Birds,” environmentalist and writer Barry Lopez rued how scientific methodology doesn’t take into consideration our senses or perception, how data is divorced from the experience of nature. “Biology should borrow here from quantum physics, which accepts the premise that, under certain circumstances, the observer can be deceived,” he wrote. “Quantum physics, with its ambiguous particles and ten-dimensional universes, is a branch of science that has in fact returned us to a state of awe with nature, without threatening our intellectual capacity to analyze complex events.” Such is the fascination that grounds the book Inploration: Art Exploring Space to Understand...

Kovr Studio rethinks the look of the conventional light switch
 
Small details can influence the overall coherence of an interior, including elements such as light switches that are often overlooked. Standard white switch plates can contrast with painted or wallpapered walls, introducing a visual interruption within otherwise carefully coordinated surfaces. Kovr Studio addresses this detail with modular switch covers designed to alter the appearance of existing switches without tools or adhesive. The covers can be installed and removed within seconds, providing a simple way to integrate the switch into the surrounding interior.
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In this week's episode, Ben Luke speaks to three editors at The Art Newspaper about developments in July and August as well as events they are looking forward to

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daniel arsham TIME-WORNs BRONZE sculpture for the balvenie
 
A circular bed of grain welcomes designboom to the floor of Space S50 in Seongdong-gu, Seoul. Four performers move within the material, gathering, spreading, and reshaping the loose barley using sweeping, continuous gestures. Choreographed by Sukyung Yoo to a soundscape recorded inside The Balvenie distillery, the eight-part performance translates the manual labor of turning grain on a traditional malting floor into kinetic art. Conceptualised by artist Daniel Arsham, the live performance marks the debut of The 1931 Collection, created by the Speyside whiskey maker and unveiled during Frieze Seoul 2026.
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Pietrangelo Buttafuoco said he would do “everything” again in regards to his clash with the Italian government and the European Commission on the issue

LES CARYATIDES DE GUYANCOURT BY Manuel Núñez Yanowsky
 
Just southwest of Paris, at the intersection of Andrea Palladio and Frank Lloyd Wright streets in the suburb of Guyancourt, 18 colossal female figures stand together to support one of the most surreal manifestations of postmodernist architecture.
 
Together, the monumental replicas of the Venus de Milo compose Les Caryatides, two identical apartment blocks standing across from each other, performing their own kind of concrete theater in full view of the public. The project was designed in 1992 by architect Manuel Núñez Yanowsky, who was one of the original team members of Ricardo Bofill’s Taller de Arquitectura in early 1960s Barcelona, and went...

Ever shed a tear in a museum? You’re not alone, my friend. There’s something cathartic about that rare moment, when you find yourself in front of a work of art that seems tailor-made for the very grief or joy or uncertainty you’re experiencing. Critic Lavinia Liang tries to locate this emotional connection with art — or a lack thereof — in Ann Patchett’s new novel, Whistler, which follows a single family’s unraveling and reunion bookended by the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Our reports on ICE’s seizure of 22,000 smuggled artifacts in Florida, coverage of the Chinese Pavilion’s withdrawal from the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea in protest of the Taiwan Pavilion, guide to Upstate...

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Tension is boiling over at San Diego’s Institute of Contemporary Art due to a spate of recent firings, exhibition closures, and budgetary concerns, according to reports. Over the course of late July through early August, the ICA laid off nearly half of its personnel, including its entire public-facing visitor experience team and its only curator. […]

This fall, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art will commemorate its centennial with the unveiling of significant recent acquisitions, some of which will be displayed in its American and African Art collection galleries. These acquisitions include a rare painting by Jacob Lawrence, a quilt by Carolyn L. Mazloomi, and a work by folk artist Grandma Moses. […]

Whether it’s scenes from the subway, streets, or Times Square, visions of New York City are often hectic and crowded. For Erin Milez, the hustle and bustle, but moreover the cramped spaces and tightness, characterize a new body of work going on view this month in Everything the Light Touches at Monya Rowe Gallery. Milez recently moved from New York to Seattle, and she began to examine the nature of human connection, or the lack thereof, in urban spaces. Her expressive paintings draw on the visual language and subject matter of artists like George Tooker and Jacob Lawrence, who approached the theme of urban life through distinctive, figurative compositions. There’s also an unmistakable nod to the blocky,...

Before the iPhone essentially turned all of us into documentarians, the Super 8 camera offered a more democratic approach to filmmaking. Kodak introduced the analog format in 1965 with an eye toward amateurs and hobbyists interested in capturing the world around them, and today it remains a stalwart of the discipline, particularly for those drawn to the grainy, nostalgic qualities of shooting on film. Ed Sayers, director and founder of the annual Super 8 competition and community called straight 8, tapped into the camera’s equalizing legacy for his latest project. Bringing together 40 collaborators in 25 countries across five continents, Super Nature is a collective ode to our planet. Rather than travel the...

By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...

A new English translation of Puccini's La fanciulla del West gallops into a high school in Pacifica with as much grit and gumption as its titular frontierswoman.

There are several HDs that look interesting, but what I most looking forward to is the Manon with Nadine Sierra.

In between performances of Strauss and Mozart, Parterre Box highlights the smolderingly elegant Samantha Hankey.

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Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...

I'm looking forward to the Met's new production of Puccini's La fanciulla del West.

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It is only a concert performance, but no one seems to have told them that; and thank the heavens for that!

By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...

By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...

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Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here.  Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

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...

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

 
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

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

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here. We also mark an...