FUN AND AWE OPERATOR BUILDS BEATS The intersection of music production and spatial computing finds a bold new expression. Designed by FUN AND AWE, OPERATOR is an app for Apple Vision Pro that allows users to construct electronic music compositions by building elaborate, visual XR sculptures. The tool is rooted in the philosophy of intuitive, modular systems, making music creation accessible to people without any prior experience.
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produce music through building blocks
 
The core of the FUN AND AWE‘s OPERATOR app is its music system. It is composed of a set of colored cubes that represent samples, including drums, synths, bass, and effects, along with simple tools...

Noor Riyadh 2025 immerses the city in 125 artistic positions, weaving together history, architecture, and rapid urban change in an unforgettable display of public art. Shinji Ohmaki, Liminal Air Space-Time, 2025. Photo: Suzette Bell-Roberts Having […]

Oil-filled watch by marc newson and ressence
 
Marc Newson designs Ressence’s TYPE 3 MN watch with the time hands appearing suspended in a removable oil-filled chamber. The timepiece design uses Ressence’s ROCS system (Ressence Orbital Convex System), which is a display mechanism that moves the accessory’s discs instead of its standard hands. These discs rotate around multiple axes, and on TYPE 3 MN with Marc Newson, four biaxial satellites hold Grade 5 titanium discs, each of them moving at a set angle that allows the hours, minutes, and seconds to be clearly read.
 
There is also a runner disc engraved into the discs, illuminating to help the user see the markings in bright or dark environments. The...

A monumental exhibition reconnecting Mexico, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia Galo B. Ocampo, Moro Dance, 1946. Collection of National Gallery Singapore. Courtesy of the National Heritage Board, Singapore. Opening at the Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico […]

modern design by link-arc rises within china’s yunlu wetland
 
Beside a natural habitat for thousands of herons, Shunde Yunlu Wetland Museum by Link-Arc rises within the dense vegetation of a wetland park in China.
 
The museum sits just beyond a line of sequoia trees, set back from nearby paths and waterways to maintain a quiet edge within the park. A central water channel divides the site, and the surrounding trees create both enclosure and filtered views. Fitting the building within this context, Link-Arc orients each level toward openings in the canopy and toward the heron nesting areas across the water.
 
Within this protected landscape, the structure brings together a bird-watching tower and a...

 
We’re pleased to announce that the next book in our AUTO PHOTO series, AUTO PHOTO 04, is now available to pre-order in our online shop!
Featuring the Top 100 images selected for AUTO PHOTO Awards 2025, AUTO PHOTO 04 celebrates and showcases the best creative automotive photography from photographers around the world.
This year’s Awards were judged by a panel of experts from the automotive and photographic industries: Karen Harvey MBE (Founder and Creative Director of Shutter Hub and AUTO PHOTO), Charles Gordon-Lennox, The Duke of Richmond (Founder of Goodwood Revival and Festival of Speed), Hugh Chambers (CEO of Motorsport UK), Alessia Glaviano (Head of Global PhotoVogue and Director of the Photo Vogue...

A historic first for the Ghanaian artist and a shift in global cultural influence Photo: Almudena Caso Burbano. Courtesy the artist and APALAZZOGALLERY In a milestone moment for contemporary art, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has […]

In un’epoca segnata dalla crisi delle grandi narrazioni e dal progressivo sfaldamento delle certezze politiche ereditate dal Novecento, la pratica artistica che si confronta con la dimensione storica e geopolitica assume una valenza epistemologica. Non si tratta più di rappresentare gli eventi o di commemorarli, ma di operare su di essi una complessa opera di riattivazione semantica, atta a far emergere dalle pieghe del passato le tensioni irrisolte che continuano a strutturare il presente. La mostra Pushing the limits, in corso a Bologna alla Galleria de’ Foscherari, si inscrive precisamente in questo territorio interstiziale, dove l’arte diventa strumento di contro-memoria e dispositivo critico capace...

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Mirumi clings tightly to handles as a mini attachable robot
 
Mirumi, a mini attachable robot, clings tightly onto bag handles and moves its head when users pet it. No longer a prototype, the portable device looks around and reacts to what happens near it or on it using the ‘special’ algorithm that the design team has developed. To recap, Yukai Engineering, the mastermind behind the project, debuted Mirumi at CES 2025, and back then it was a prototype. Soon, the mini attachable robot is expected to come to life, at least mechanically, as a fashion accessory users can clip on their bag handles and even belt loops.
 
Mirumi has a head, a body, and two arms that wrap around straps or poles. The shape lets...

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The most valuable sale reported was an abstract painting by Gerhard Richter for $5.5m, from David Zwirner

The fair’s 14th edition, housed in its distinctive pink-accented tent directly on South Beach, shows a range of creative sculptural wall-hangings in bold hues

The fair saw a flurry of early activity, including three works acquired by the Pérez Art Museum Miami

Plus: data-driven sculptures delight hotel guests

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‘the Observer Effect’ debuts on the Shelborne By Proper beach
 
The Observer Effect by Pilar Zeta opens on the shoreline in front of The Shelborne By Proper in Miami, bringing a temporary architectural presence that responds directly to its coastal setting. Unveiled on December 2nd, 2025 the public artwork introduces a sequence of metallic portals whose scale, alignment, and surface treatment are shaped by an interest in perception and spatial awareness.
 
During the evening launch, visitors first encountered the work from the sand, where the relationship between geometry and light came into focus. Eight large-scale portals form a rhythmic perspective toward the horizon, and create a corridor that frames...

The artist regards Florida’s unique ecosystem as “emblematic of our larger environmental concerns”

The organizers of Reykjavík’s biennial art festival Sequences have announced Raphael Fonseca and Yina Jiménez Suriel as the artistic directors of the event’s thirteenth iteration, to take place October 2027. The two were chosen from among seventy respondents to an open call issued earlier this year. “We are delighted and honored to curate Sequences in […]

My father lowered into the ground.My sister floating lifeless in the ocean.The shock, the horror, the back-to-back grief, and the chilling void of their absence.They were on my mind as I was looking at Katherine Bradford’s painting “Moonlight” (2025) in her exhibition Communal Table at Canada Gallery in Manhattan. It’s a woman hovering in space, coupled with what could be her ghost. Her features are well-defined, a rare gesture by Bradford, whose figures tend to be faceless. It must be someone important in her life. I don’t know. I didn’t ask. The stars twinkle behind the two figures. A full moon glows bright. I get the sense it’s a moment of tranquility, of acceptance. Installation view of...

The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) announced this week that it is launching a new fair, just months after the organization cancelled this year's edition of its 36-year-old annual Art Show benefiting the Manhattan social services nonprofit Henry Street Settlement.After an absence from New York City's Park Avenue Armory this year, the ADAA will return to its longtime venue with a new event, simply titled the ADAA Fair, from November 12 through November 16, 2026. The new fair replaces the Art Show, which contributed unrestricted funds to the Henry Street Settlement. This fall, the nonprofit launched its own fundraiser to recoup the approximately $1 million in expected funds lost as a result...

December has arrived, with its year-end cheer! Amid the chaos, it brings with it hope and excitement for the year ahead, as galleries in Upstate New York welcome holiday-goers with art abounding across the land. Sex Education at Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center keeps things spicy, while September presents canine- and feline-themed artworks, with a portion of sales going toward immigrant aid. A show at the Fenimore Art Museum offers insight into Romare Bearden's powerful vision, and one on Kikuo Saito at KinoSaito features older works by the master painter. Yellow Studio is hosting a group exhibition of mixed-media works by 22 women artists, while the Ruffed Grouse Gallery presents four artists...

It’s not surprising that there are two sets of lush arrangements in Mason Pott’s Chicago studio. Photographing live bouquets of bright sunflowers, daisies, and waxy apples or magenta orchids at their peak is the first step in the artist’s layered process. Post photoshoot, he translates these floral bunches into hyperrealistic paintings, with particular care in accurately capturing their textures and the interplay of light and shadow. Pott is known for his impeccable attention to detail, painting large-scale works in oil that immerse the viewer in fields of foliage. He often creates moody still lifes that approach such classic, timeless subject matter through a contemporary lens. In keeping with that mode...

The United States House Oversight Committee Democrats released several photos captured on the grounds of the deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's house on his private island in the US Virgin Islands today, December 3. Among a file of eight seemingly banal images of bedrooms and living rooms, one photograph stands out as the creepiest. It depicts what appears to be a dentist's chair in the center of a room decorated with masks of men's faces. On the walls surrounding the chair, there are 12 orange-hued likenesses of men with open eyes, none of which are immediately recognizable. It is unclear what purpose the room served, and the artist or maker of the masks has not been identified.The...

CHICAGO — Theaster Gates dissolves the boundaries between artist and collector, archivist and storyteller, ceramicist and interior decorator. These roles may seem exclusive, but they are not — as Gates has proven. The complexity of his socially engaged practice became more apparent to me after I saw three concurrent presentations of his work in Chicago: Oh, You’ve Got to Come Back to the City at Gray Gallery and Unto Thee at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago (where he teaches), accompanied by a site-specific installation on view through July 2026, African Still Life #3: A Tribute to Patric McCoy and Marva Jolly. At the same time, certain aspects of the work gave me pause. The first is...

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant has named its 2025 recipients, among them Artforum contributors Glenn Adamson and Jeremy Lybarger. The New York–based organization will distribute a total of $1.04 million to thirty-one writers working across four categories—Articles, Books, Short-Form Writing, and Translation. Each will receive between $15,000 and $50,000. Launched in 2006, the […]

Let’s face it: we’re all pressed for time. One way we economize on our use of that precious resource is acronyms, those handy abbreviations that use the first letters of a multi-word name or phrase. In everyday conversation, for example, when your car breaks down and you need a tow, you call AAA (pronounced triple A), not the American Automobile Association, and it’s NASA, not the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, that sends astronauts into space.  The art world is no exception, with nonprofit organizations, galleries, advisories, museums, and even individuals being known by acronyms that have become so much part of the way art worlders talk that we may not even think about it.  Here’s a...

WARSAW, POLAND—Analysis of monkey remains unearthed at the Roman port of Berenice on Egypt’s Red Sea Coast has identified the animals as rhesus macaques, bonnet macaques, and one grivet—all animals from southern India or the Indus Valley in northern India, IFL Science reports. Marta Osypińska of the University of Wrocław, Piotr Osypiński of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Iwona Zych of the University of Warsaw suggest that these monkeys were kept as pets by Roman elites, probably army officers, in the first and second centuries A.D. Monkey remains unearthed at other Roman sites have been identified as North African Barbary macaques, making the Berenice pets the first known to have been imported...

Katie Heck has built an immense body of work that crosses disciplines, from painting to sculpture to film. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
The post All My Friends Are Wild: The Art of Katie Heck first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Since time immemorial, humans have sculpted sacred symbols into stone or formed them from clay. Expressing beliefs, worldviews, and spirituality in physical objects like votives and shrines is a way to imbue power and venerate deities and the natural world. For artists Chenlu Hou and Chiara No, ceramics is an enduring conduit to explore spirituality and storytelling. Hou and No’s work will be exhibited together in a duo exhibition titled What the Hands Remember to Hear, which opens next month at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. The artists showcase objects that take on a sacred quality, emphasizing ceremony and customs while considering how cultures change and merge over time. Chiara No, “Votive of...

A researcher holds two cat skulls during lab analysis. ROME, ITALY—Gizmodo reports that analysis of DNA samples taken from 70 cats who lived in Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia between the ninth century B.C. and the nineteenth century A.D. suggests that cats (Felis catus) may have arrived in Europe just 2,000 years ago. It had been previously thought that cat domestication began some 10,000 years ago, when wildcats lived alongside farmers in the Levant and hunted rodents seeking stored grain. Cats were then thought to have traveled with Neolithic farmers who left Anatolia for Europe some 6,000 years ago. Felines are known to have been revered in Egypt about 4,000 years ago. But when Claudio Ottoni and...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation named its 2025 Arts Writers Grant recipients, among them past and current ARTnews and Art in America contributors such as Glenn Adamson, Jeremy Lybarger, Zoé Samudzi, and Catherine G. Wagley. The grants consider writers across four categories: Articles, Books, Short-Form Writing, and Translation. The latter was introduced this cycle with a $30,000 purse to those translating books on contemporary visual art into English. A total of $1.04 million will be distributed to 31 writers this year in grants ranging from $15,000 to $50,000. Since the initiative started in 2006, the grants have been annually awarded to contemporary art writers “to ensure that critical writing remains a valued...

If you have recently heard from or done business with a New York art gallery that has Aicon as part of its name, you may want to take a closer look at the dealer’s website or letterhead and make sure you know exactly who you are dealing with. That’s because two businesses, run by two dueling brothers, are in conflict over the use of the name, which, per a lawsuit, denotes a legacy business, Aicon Gallery, which was in operation for 20 years before the brothers parted ways in 2019. Aicon Contemporary, represented by Projjal Dutta, filed the suit in New York Supreme Court in October against defendants Prajit Dutta and director Harry Hutchison, representing Aicon Art as well as ArtsIndia.com. The suit alleges...

A rare Fabergé egg created from crystal and adorned with diamonds sold for £22.9 million (around $30.2 million) on Tuesday at Christie’s London, where the price broke the record as the highest ever for a Fabergé egg at auction. The sale was the top billing in “The Winter Egg and Important Works by Fabergé from a Princely Collection,” whose 48 lots brought in a total of £27.8 million ($37.1 million). The so-called Winter Egg was created for Russia’s imperial family, one of 50 such lavish creations commissioned between 1885 and the Russian Revolution in 1917. As reported in The Art Newspaper (TAN), seven are thought to have been lost, and seven remain in private hands, outside of institutions....

Tula cache BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA—A cache of some 60 tools was found protruding from the soil in northwest Queensland, according to an ABC News Australia report. Known as tulas, the objects would have been hafted onto a handle and used for woodworking, said Yinika Perston of Griffith University. Using optically stimulated luminescence, the artifacts have been dated to between 1793 and 1913, or about 170 years ago. Perston explained that the tulas had likely been made by the local Pitta Pitta people for trading, so this bundle of tools was therefore very valuable. “Even though these tools are found pretty much all over Australia, it just so happens that the other bundle is only seven kilometers [4.35 miles]...

“The World of Studio Ghibli”, a long-running immersive exhibition dedicated to the wildly popular Japanese animation studio, will next set up shop at Manarat Al Saadiyat, an arts and culture center in Abu Dhabi, the National News reported. Manarat Al Saadiyat is home to the annual Abu Dhabi art fair, and also hosts various exhibitions, workshops, studio spaces, and cultural events. The exhibition will be on view May 30 through August 20, 2026, and you can already reserve tickets for 125 AED (or about $34). “The World of Studio Ghibli” launched in 2013 and has previously been on view in Japan, South Korean, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Bankkok. The most recent iteration, at Singapore’s ArtScience Museum,...

In the autumn, abundant leaves fall from deciduous trees, leaving traces of a season’s job well done. Simultaneously everywhere and yet tiny symbols of the fragility of our forest ecosystems, these delicate specimens spend all summer photosynthesizing and making sure their trees get the nutrients they need. Once their job is done, Susanna Bauer’s beautiful and intimate pieces begin. Known for her lacy leaves meticulously stitched with cotton thread, Bauer transforms magnolia, gingko, oak, and other varieties of leaves into elegant, tiny textile pieces. Whether filling a precisely cut circular void, joining pointy edges, or merging multiple leaves together, the materials converge in a study of strength and...

Europe’s museums and galleries are presenting a season of ambitious exhibitions that push the boundaries of installation, performance and experiential art. From pioneers of the Brazilian avant-garde to artists redefining ecological practice, game-changing British choreographers, and politically charged multimedia works, these shows invite audiences to engage with creativity from the inside out. Together, they highlight the inventive, urgent and immersive directions art is taking today. This is a December not to be missed. Lygia Pape. Weaving SpacePinault Collection, Paris | Until 26 January Lygia Pape (1927–2004) is recognised as one of the leading figures of the 20th-century Brazilian avant-garde,...

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New York audiences got a taste of Ben Bliss in Mozart this fall, but this week Grand Tier Grab Bag offers snippets of the tenor trying his hand at Handel earlier this year.

In conversation with Suzette Bell-Roberts, Josèfa Ntjam, whose work is featured in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, explores erased histories, speculative ecologies, and the sonic frequencies that open pathways to new ways of being […]

Gabriela Beňačková is featured in a wonderful Christmas album called Carolling, released by Supraphon in the early 1990s.

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The story begins, as so many do in the history of modern photography, with an image: a woman behind the camera, calibrating light, waiting for a moment to materialise, composing an understanding of the world. Women Photographers 1900-1975: A Legacy of Light, which recently opened at NGV International, expands this gesture into a sweeping, multi-generational portrait of creative ingenuity. More than 300 works by over 70 artists illuminate the breadth and complexity of women’s contributions to photography during one of the most turbulent and transformative eras in modern history. The exhibition begins with a single idea – that women’s perspectives shaped photography – and transforms it into a global...

A landmark retrospective tracing forty years of boundary-pushing performance and visual practice Steven Cohen. Courtesy of Iziko. ‘Steven Cohen: Long Life’ opens at the Iziko South African National Gallery on 12 December 2025, marking the […]

A trio of art-world stalwarts are joining forces to form a global gallery devoted to selling artwork on the secondary market. Pace Gallery, Di Donna Galleries owner Emmanuel Di Donna, and David Schrader, an executive vice president and chairman of global private sales at Sotheby’s, are teaming up to create Pace DiDonna Schrader (PDS). Headquartered […]

A report from Performa 2025 Biennial's Walking Tours

While Coca-Cola decided to run with generative AI for its animated Christmas ad—a holiday tradition the brand is known for—Apple leaned into the world of practical effects with a troupe of woodland puppets. Titled “A Critter Carol” and featuring the latest iPhone model, the short film takes its cues from compassion, creativity, and community. The quirky, happy-go-lucky song is inspired by Flight of the Conchords’ tune “Friends” and features a ragtag group of woodland critters who happen to run across an iPhone someone dropped during a hike. “For me, it was the story of how one act of kindness can bring…lots of different people together, and I think that’s a nice message,” says director...

KERMA, SUDAN—Phys.org reports that a Kerma culture burial radiocarbon dated to between 1775 and 1609 B.C. has been discovered in Sudan’s Bayuda Desert, in what was once ancient Nubia, by a team of researchers including Monika Badura and Henryk Paner of the Gdańsk Archaeological Museum. The grave contained the skeletal remains of a robust man who stood about five feet, four inches tall. He had flattened lumbar vertebrae and changes in his left ankle, indicating that he had performed intense physical labor. Thickening of the skull suggests he had experienced malnutrition, disease, or trauma. Two vessels made of clay were also recovered from the grave. The first was a bowl placed upside-down, similar to...

Pecos River Style artwork depicting a human-like figure SAN MARCOS, TEXAS—The oldest rock art discovered in limestone shelters in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwestern Texas and northern Mexico have been radiocarbon dated to some 6,000 years ago, according to a Live Science report. The hunter-gatherer artists continued to paint in the same style, known as the Pecos River Style tradition, for more than 4,000 years, or about 175 generations, said Carolyn Boyd of Texas State University. She and her colleagues suggest that the images of symbols and animal-like and human-like figures reflect a library of works describing rituals and a sophisticated cosmology. “Many of the 200-plus murals in the region are...

Taken from a vertical perspective, Kevin Krautgartner’s photographs of crashing waves conjure the power and beauty of our oceans. Captured along the coast of Western Australia, the images revel in the clarity and textures of the water and shoreline, where “wind, swell, and underwater topography creates some of the most powerful and visually striking wave formations I’ve ever encountered,” he says. Krautgartner’s latest series is titled Waves | Ocean Forces. Turquoise water swirls, sprays, rolls, and washes over the sand, focused so specifically that the phenomenon appears nearly abstracted. The artist spends time planning and waiting for ideal weather conditions and swells in order to snap the...

At 52, Heather Powers is exploring mud and clay resist pattern texts on fabrics combined with natural dyes. They're working with indigo, captivated by the shades of blue it yields. There is a process of alchemy that transforms humble plants' leaves into royal shades of indigo. There's been a continuous thread—they're a weaver and fiber artist—throughout their creative career. For the early part, they were focused on developing technical skills and a personal language through patterns, colors,...

Tamara Wilson and Stanislas de Barbeyrac are the standouts in Calixto Bieito's underwhelming Die Walküre in Paris

"O Divine Redeemer" is, I suppose, more properly an Advent or Lenten piece. But when Renata Tebaldi asks us to hear her "croy", who can resist?

Tobi Onabolu is an artist-filmmaker and writer from London, now based in Grand Popo, Benin Republic. His film, Danse Macabre, was awarded this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize. The moving-image piece explores spirituality, mental health and the human psyche. Here, Onabolu brings together a vast range of ideologies, uniting Jungian psychology, which stipulates that all humans share a “collective unconscious,” informed by our ancestors; with Yoruba cosmology, a belief system stating that the universe has two interconnected worlds, one physical and one spiritual. The work synthesises elements from Yoruba traditions, European cinema and experimental music, creating a performance that draws from multiple...

In the decades following WWII, Britain welcomed thousands of South Asian migrants, many of whom found work in the mills and factories of Northern England. By 1970, more than 20,000 Pakistanis had made their home in Bradford alone. The following decade was one marred by economic hardship, unemployment and poor housing, a landscape that saw intensified social pressure. At the same time, the National Front, a far-right, fascist political party, rose in popularity. In 1977, the party won more than 100,000 votes in a Greater London election and in Bradford, NF marches and racist street activity became a regular feature of the political landscape. In response, a confident second generation began to emerge, with the...

Shin Shin (しんしん) is a Japanese onomatopoeia that describes the softened hush of falling snow. The literal translation of “Shin” is “silence”, or more accurately, the absence of sound where there was sound before. The word reflects the sensation that the world has been turned down, muffled by a blanket of white across rooftops and tree branches. It also captures the meditative stillness that runs through Michael Kenna’s (b. 1953) work. The photographer is best-known for enigmatic, graceful and hauntingly beautiful images of nature, often taken at dawn or in the dark hours of night. A new exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, brings together a selection of black-and-white prints...

Quando apriamo un manuale di storia dell’arte, la prima sensazione che ci investe non è di natura estetica, ma puramente amministrativa. Ciò che colpisce è l’ordine implacabile che organizza la materia: grandi periodi, maestri incontestabili, firme rassicuranti. Questa struttura, nella sua apparente neutralità, ci offre il conforto di una coerenza artificiale, quasi a suggerire che la Storia segua un percorso lineare, ascendente e già definito. Le opere arrivano soltanto in un secondo momento, avvolte in quell’aura di “capolavoro” che, a ben guardare, non riflette quasi mai un valore intrinseco o mistico, quanto piuttosto il risultato di lente sedimentazioni politiche, accordi istituzionali e...