Immersive environments that engage the body, mind and senses are a defining thread in contemporary art, and Ernesto Neto’s SunForceOceanLife exemplifies this approach with unparalleled vibrancy. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brazilian artist transforms Cullinan Hall into a spiralling labyrinth suspended 12 feet above the ground. The installation draws attention to the cyclical relationship between the sun and the sea, reflecting the generative forces that sustain life on Earth. Colour and texture merge to create a dynamic, tactile experience: yellow, orange, and green hand-woven textiles form intricate patterns, while soft plastic balls beneath visitors’ feet subtly shift with every step. This...

Assistive designs and wearable devices for body agency
 
Some modern wearable devices and assistive designs entertain users and track their health, but others are created for a more meaningful purpose: to give people control of their own bodies. These tools allow them to walk across the room, type a message using a specific part of their body, speak a sentence without using their mouth, and pick an object up, again. Body agency is a power returned after an incident took it away from the user’s physical form, and some wearable devices and technologies have this exact goal in mind. When visual artist Karolina Wiktor had strokes from 2009, her aneurysm had ruptured, and when she came back to consciousness, her...

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fabric corridor by ryo yamada unfolds in edinburgh
 
Japanese artist Ryo Yamada presents Perception Corridor, a site-specific installation at Scot ART Gallery within St Margaret’s House in Edinburgh, UK. Completed in March 2026, the work transforms the gallery’s narrow footprint into an immersive spatial sequence that explores perception, movement, and environmental awareness. Measuring approximately 40 meters in length, the installation cuts diagonally across the gallery, forming a corridor constructed from suspended fabric panels. The structure responds directly to the proportions of the space, translating distance into a physical and sensory experience.
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Architectural and furniture designer Marten Herma Anderson presents a new series of candy-like lamps that translate a childhood memory into a tactile lighting object. The project is driven by a moment he recalls as ‘a childhood memory of melted candy on a lamp-bulb,‘ which eventually expanded into a small family of lamps. What began as a playful accident has been shaped into a focused material study.
 
Anderson describes a long-standing fascination with ‘translucent colour — ice cream wrappers, gummy bears, the way light moves through something that was never meant to glow.‘ Using resin, he suspends melted pigments to echo the soft collapse...

Strong results in the London spring auctions suggest ultrarich are regaining confidence, despite escalating war in the Middle East

Four men have pulled off a major heist of works by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in the rural Italian city of Parma, according to reports. Per a statement given by the foundation to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera, on the night of March 22, the hooded thieves took less than three minutes to infiltrate the premises […]

A giant golden toilet has materialized on the National Mall in Washington, DC; it’s just the latest in a series of guerrilla art installations that’ve appeared on the premises in recent months. Nearly ten feet tall, the toilet-throne includes a plaque that references Donald Trump’s frequently-derided remodeling of the Lincoln Bedroom bathroom. Titled A Throne Fit for a King, authorship of the […]

Performance artist, activist, and archivist Agosto Machado, who gained art world acclaim late in life for the shrines he built from ephemera collected during his decades on New York’s gritty downtown scene, died on March 21 following a brief illness. His death was confirmed by New York gallery Gordon Robichaux, which represented him. Many of […]

Ten years after Arts of Africa became its own department at the Brooklyn Museum, the institution is embarking on the development of a $13 million permanent home for the collection of over 4,500 objects and artworks.The museum is transforming underutilized storage areas on its third floor into 6,400 square feet of exhibition space, creating a seamless transition with the Egyptian art galleries to reconnect the art and historical legacy of North Africa with that of the rest of the continent, the institution said in an announcement on March 24.Peterson Rich Office (PRO), a Brooklyn-based architecture firm behind multiple commercial and institutional exhibition spaces, is leading the site's renovation and...

In a heist lasting less than three minutes, thieves nabbed paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse from a small museum in northern Italy, according to local police. On the night of March 22 and early morning of March 23, multiple suspects reportedly entered the campus of the Magnani Rocca Foundation, a museum dedicated to the collection of the late critic and collector Luigi Magnani, about 12 miles outside of Parma.The thieves grabbed Renoir’s “Les Poissons” (1917), Cézanne’s “Cup and Plate of Cherries” (c. 1890), and Matisse’s “Odalisque on the Terrace” (1922), together reportedly worth an estimated $10 million. Local media described the incident as a highly...

The British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen is this year’s winner of the Erasmus Prize, given annually by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, a Dutch cultural institution. The award comes with a 150,000 euro (about $172,000) cash prize plus “adornments”—in this case, a folded paper booklet printed with text in the 16th century Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus’s script.   As an artist, McQueen is best known for films like Occupied City (2023), a four-and-a-half-hour-long documentary about Amsterdam during the Holocaust; Ashes (2015), which was cut from footage McQueen shot of a man on a fishing boat in Grenada in 2002; and Static (2009), a view of the Statue of Liberty shot from a circling...

A painting long thought to be a “workshop copy” of a cherished Rembrandt in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago has been attributed to Rembrandt himself by a scholar with significant credit to his claim. As reported by the Guardian, Gary Schwartz, who has written books on Rembrandt and Dutch painting and will deliver a talk on Monday at the National Gallery in London, said a canvas in a private collection in the UK is in fact a Rembrandt in the same way as Old Man with a Gold Chain (1631) at the Art Institute. Both of the works (the former on panel, as opposed to the canvas owned by collector Francis Newman) share the same title and were brought together for a display that opened late last year...

The Basque regional government has formally asked Spain’s Ministry of Culture to authorize a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, according to Ara, a Catalan-language newspaper. If the move is approved, it would mark the first time the painting has traveled since it was installed at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía in 1992. The proposed transfer would take place between October 2026 and June 2027, coinciding with the 90th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica, the Basque city whose destruction by Nazi and Italian Fascist air forces on April 26, 1937, inspired Picasso to paint the antiwar canvas. Imanol Pradales, the lehendakari, or head of government, for Basque Country...

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. Earth 2026 Art Awards: Exhibition, Publication, Sales, and Global PromotionFeaturedWhat does your art reveal about Earth? Its beauty, its resilience, or what’s at risk? The 6th edition of Earth 2026 juried awards invites artists worldwide to explore and express the power, beauty, and resilience of our wounded planet as we approach World Earth Day. From nature and climate to human connection and endangered ecosystems, this is your space to turn awareness into art. Selected artists receive an exhibition, Artsy...

WASHINGTON, DC — A 10-foot-tall, faux marble throne with a golden toilet in the center was unveiled on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial this morning, March 30. Titled “A Throne Fit For A King,” the protest piece features a towering throne back and armrest decorated with gold finials and ornamentation. Three semi-circular stairs lead up to the platform, and visitors are encouraged to sit on the golden commode. “In a time of unprecedented division, escalating conflict, and economic turmoil, President Trump focused on what truly mattered: remodeling the Lincoln bathroom in the White House,” reads a bronze plaque affixed to the work. The notorious bathroom remodeling last fall is just one of President...

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Remembering Pat Steir and her art

Midafternoon along Prospect Park West this past Saturday, March 28, all eyes transfixed on a billowing magenta cape emblazoned with the words “ABOLISH ICE.” The cloak's maker: Una Osato, an artist and sex educator who came out to Brooklyn’s No Kings march with her colleague. “There’s a never-ending need for functional art,” she told Hyperallergic of her creation, which throngs of passersby fawned over for the event’s duration.  For Osato, Saturday’s march served as an important reminder of the intrinsic beauty of social movements. “When we’re together, we can be more courageous than we ever imagined we could be on our own,” she said. “And I hope that I can add a little bit of...

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Making a titillating documentary about two long-dead landscape painters is no small task, especially when it's based on a museum exhibition. But Turner & Constable, based on a namesake show at Tate Britain about the supposed rivalry between the two British masters, sure tries. And who's better than our acerbic London critic Michael Glover to judge if the film pulled it off? Read his review here. Also in this edition: Two new Sundance films offer useful tips on how to survive the age of AI. Good luck with that. —Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chiefLatest ReviewsStill from Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals featuring artist and writer Lachlan Goudie (courtesy Seventh Art Productions) Turner and...

Four masked men stole three artworks, one each by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse, from a private art museum in Italy last week, according to a report by the Bologna-based newspaper La Repubblica. The paintings are reportedly worth millions of dollars. The heist, which took place on the night of March 22, lasted just three minutes. It happened at the Magnani Rocca Foundation, located in a villa outside Parma, and involved the theft of Cézanne’s Still Life with Cherries (1890), Renoir’s late-career Les Poissons (1917), and Matisse’s Odalisque on the Terrace (1922). A report by the BBC noted that Les Poissons, the sole oil on canvas, is worth the lion’s share of the €9 million...

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has appointed Kate McNamara John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director. She had held the role on an interim basis since last year. McNamara, the founder of East Providence, Rhode Island-based contemporary art space ODD-KIN, known for its experimental, artist-driven programming. She […]

There are thousands upon thousands of types of mold out there. Some you can eat—think the rind on a wheel of brie or a gray fungus known as “noble rot” that gives certain types of grapes an extra sweet flavor for dessert wines. But there are plenty we shouldn’t eat, and when that loaf of bread in the cupboard begins to turn blue-green, it’s definitely time to chuck it in the bin. For Kathleen Ryan, the myriad colors and textures of mold continue to inspire larger-than-life sculptures of fruit and other foods that, in a way, preserve decay. Ryan’s oversized works are characterized by their textural finishes, often using salvaged metal and other materials in addition to an array of colored beads and...

Revisiting Gaetano Pesce’s Chiat\Day New York Project
 
Pulp Galerie presents Gaetano Pesce, The CHIAT\DAY New York Project, its second exhibition at the gallery’s new space in Paris’ 6th arrondissement. The retrospective brings together rare elements from the Italian designer’s experimental advertising offices in New York in the mid-1990s. On view from March 26th through May 30th, 2026, the exhibition revisits a moment when architecture, furniture, and workplace culture merged into a vivid experiment.
 
The selection of desks, doors and chairs were originally created for the CHIAT\DAY advertising agency. The exhibition reconstructs fragments of a project that once occupied the thirty-eighth floor...

The Headlines VILLA VANDALIZED. Three masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, and Paul Cézanne were stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation’s villa near Parma on the night of March 22, as first reported by the Italian broadcaster Rai on Sunday and later aggregated by  Le Monde and the Agence France-Presse. Police said four masked burglars forced open a door to the building. In just a few minutes,they  made off with Renoir’s Les Poissons (The Fish), from 1917); Matisse’s Odalisque sur la terrasse (Odalisque on the terrace), from 1922; and the Cézanne watercolor Tasse et plat de cerises (Cup and plate of cherries), from ca. 1890. An alarm reportedly dissuaded the thieves...

Calixto Bieito's production of Idomeneo at La Monnaie is anchored by a committed cast, but gets swept up in pseudo-psychoanalytic imagery — and foot fetishism.

Raúl Sánchez inserts A new layer within a 19th-century narrative
 
In Mataró, near Barcelona, Spain, architect Raúl Sánchez reworks La Casa del Pirata, a residence originally commissioned in the 19th century by corsair Antoni Cuyàs, inserting a precise contemporary layer within its richly ornamented interiors. The intervention focuses on the main domestic rooms, where painted ceilings, decorative wallpapers, and inherited portraits are retained, allowing the historical atmosphere of the residence to remain fully present.
 
Today, the house is inhabited by Cuyàs’ descendants, who sought to adapt the historic interiors to a contemporary live-work routine. The project concentrates on three rooms that...

Washington National Opera offered a searing production of Robert Ward’s opera The Crucible, directed by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello, as the second installment in the company’s next chapter.

The art historian Gary Schwartz argues that the copy of “Old Man with a Gold Chain” currently hanging alongside the original at the Art Institute of Chicago is by Rembrandt himself, not his workshop

For two decades, the Aesthetica Art Prize has operated at the intersection of artistic innovation and cultural dialogue, establishing itself as one of the UK’s most influential platforms for contemporary practice. Marking its 20th anniversary, the Prize presents a landmark, multi-site exhibition across North Yorkshire, bringing together 50 artists whose work reflects the urgency and the complexity of life in the 21st century. Rather than functioning as a single exhibition, this edition is conceived as a distributed cultural experience, unfolding across multiple venues and engaging audiences in different locations. Since its inception in 2006, the Prize has developed within the broader ecosystem of Aesthetica...

Italian police say that four hooded criminals broke into the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, housed in a rural villa south of Parma, on 22 March

The news follows his sudden departure as president of the Pinault Collection

Pure class. Kurt Moll really knew his own voice inside out.

The La Napoule Art Foundation is opening its doors more widely than ever before through its new Threshold Art Retreats, a program designed for artists seeking creative exploration in an extraordinary setting at the Château de La Napoule in the south of France. These immersive five-day retreats invite participants of all backgrounds—not just professional artists—to step into a world where art, nature, and personal reflection intersect. With a focus on both artistic practice and inner renewal, the experience offers a rare opportunity to engage deeply with creativity in an ethereal setting shaped by nearly a century of artistic vision. Each retreat blends hands-on artistic instruction with restorative...

Censorship and book bans are on the rise worldwide, prompting growing concerns about access to information and free expression. Although this trajectory is increasingly worrisome, it isn’t new, as artist Xiaoze Xie reflects on his exhibition In the Name of the Book. Comprising paintings and life-sized porcelain sculptures, the show encompasses works made in the early 1990s through the present day, all of which reflect on the vital role books play in cultural, political, and social life. Xie’s practice is largely informed by his upbringing in China—he was born in Guangdong the same year as the Cultural Revolution— and in 1989, he witnessed the deadly Tiananmen Square protests. After moving to the U.S....

The Arts Collective complex, five years in the making, will feature galleries, learning spaces and 17 artists’ studios

Circulation(s) Festival has been spotlighting the work of emerging European photographers since 2011. For its 16th edition, the event returns to Centquatre-Paris, bringing together 26 artists representing 15 different nationalities. Selected through an open call, there is no overarching theme; instead, key strands emerge – memory, identity, ecology and political tension – capturing what matters most to young practitioners today. This year, there’s an additional focus on Irish talent. Here, we highlight five to know. Matevž Čebašek, In the Mountains, the Sun is ShiningMatevž Čebašek’s (b. 1995) intimate body of work, In the Mountains, the Sun is Shining, surveys the fragile and unreliable nature...

Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan. It served as the official Imperial capital from 794 until 1868, and today remains steeped in history. The city attracted over 10 million foreign tourists in 2024, and is renowned for its bamboo grove, gardens, historic districts, shrines and temples. Yasuhiro Ogawa (b. 1968), a leading figure in Japanese contemporary photography, has been documenting the locale for 10 years. Now, the resulting atmospheric series, Lost in Kyoto, is central to his latest show in Berlin. This body of work eschews the traditional conventions of documentary or travel photography, which revel in famous landmarks or Instagram-friendly photo-ops. Instead, Ogawa presents abstractions...

Inta Ruka (b. 1958) began photographing at a young age, driven by a deep curiosity about the people around her. The camera became her way of encountering the world. Between 1983 and 2008, Ruka captured people in her native Latvia, recording their lives in homes, courtyards and streets – places where everyday life unfolds. She returned to the same people over time, working slowly and allowing trust to develop. The resulting photographs preserve places, relationships and lived experiences, from which a sense of belonging emerges. Fotografiska Tallinn presents Places Called Home, a show that brings together two series across more than 80 photographs. They paint a portrait of Latvia during a time of...

As we reach the end of “Bass Month” I’d like to call attention to the superb American Gregory Reinhart who particularly shone in music by Jean-Philippe Rameau.

David Morrison continues his hyperrealistic explorations of flowers, seeds, and plants, capturing the intricacies and alluring textures found throughout nature in lush colored pencil. Delicate, fine lines and smooth gradients prevail in the artist’s drawings, which present the organic subject matter as if it were bathed in light. Rendered in a soft haze, shadows of individual fronds and nodes add a deceptive sense of depth to the two-dimensional works. The pieces shown here are some of Morrison’s latest, and you can find more on his Instagram and via Garvey | Simon, where he’s represented. “Botanical Series No.4 Drawing” (2025), colored pencil, 29 x 15 inches “Botanical No.3 Drawing” (2025),...

Growing up as a queer kid in the ‘80s, I was well aware from an early age that I was different, and that different was not okay, especially living in Missouri,” says New Mexico artist Anthony Hurd, who recently shifted away from abstracts, to delve into what may be deemed “controversial” figurative work. Not only […]
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Opera directors could learn a thing or two from Deaf Broadway's vivacious performance of Jeanine Tesori's Violet.

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The 78th Issue of Hi-Fructose includes a cover a feature on Nieves Gonzalez, the art of Grip Face, The landscapes of Jennifer Nehrbass, the soft sculptures of Ela Fidalgo, the stitched urban landscapes of Laura Ortiz Vega, the art Jeffrey Gibson, Yu Jin Young’s once transparent figures, and the paintings of Fatima De Juan.  Plus […]
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In partnership with our friends at Bookmobile, we helped nine artists and photographers create their own books for FREE. We’re beyond excited to share these gorgeous finished projects! This time around the winners were: Caleb Thal, Kyoko Takenaka, Matthew Walton, Olly Geary, Minhan Lin, João Lutz, Angelo Dolojan, Zeinab Diomande, Grace Dodds. Some of them opted to upgrade and enhance certain aspects of their books, and we always love seeing the unique design choices each person makes.
Independently owned and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bookmobile began as a design and typesetting production house in 1982, then started offering print services in 1996, and distribution services in 2004. When your...

We are really pleased to announce that DO YOU LIKE LOVE? is now available to order!
Do you like love? The question came from a conversation, recalled by a friend. Her elderly neighbour used to cry for ‘elp!’ and Jane’s husband Pip would rush to her aide. Sometimes she’d fallen, but rarely; although she was blind she had lived in that house for 60 years, she knew every inch of it. A house filled with memories of her husband, their life together, and her aloneness after his death. On this one day that she called out, she was found sitting with the television on, a black and white film playing out a romantic scene from the 1950s.
‘Do you like love, Pippy?’ she said, ‘I like love.’
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Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen captures people in oils with all the precision and clarity of a camera. He then places these incredibly lifelike images in impossible scenes. Uldalen’s models float in blank spaces. They precariously climb staircases that spiral upside down. They fall from buildings that tilt at odd angles. The Oslo-based artist’s work isn’t so […]
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Studio Loan wants to connect LA artists with the space they need — for free By Kristine Schomaker 60% of artists in Los Angeles don't have a studio outside their home. Or one at all. I think about that number a lot. Because space — or the lack of it — shapes everything. What you can make. How you can show it. Whether you can even invite someone in to see the work. Studio visits matter. Not in some abstract networking way, but in the real, tangible way where someone comes to your space, stands...

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Mary Iverson paints bucolic, sweeping landscapes reminiscent of the late nine-teenth century that look as if were discovered in the dusty corners of an underrated thrift store. At first look, I assume the canvases are found objects, painted over and re-imagined as something quite different than the original painter intended. This is only partially true. […]
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Who doesn’t love a good photo book? To flick through the pages, be enlightened, educated, distracted and absorbed into another world through another’s eyes? Totally fantastic!
We’re here to share our Photobook Favourites – a selection of our favourite photography books recommended by the Shutter Hub community, an archive of titles we’ve enjoyed, and a reference point for you to explore. Las Pelilargas, Irina Werning, GOST
For 18 years photographer Irina Werning travelled across Latin America to seek out those with long hair to uncover and understand its cultural significance. Her book Las Pelilargas (the long-haired ones) brings together this body of work in an exploration and celebration of...

ABOVE: Gaza Cinderella, Northern Gaza Strip, 2012“Although her drawing is filled with soldiers, helicopters, and tanks, “Amara” only spoke about her intense fear of missile strikes. When a building or other structure is targeted in Gaza, it is often hit with a barrage of several missiles to ensure its complete destruction. The sound of successive […]
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Kristine Schomaker and Genie Davis at the Getty By Kristine Schomaker I've known Genie Davis for years. She shows up. That's the first thing you notice about her — and also the thing you never stop noticing, because she just keeps doing it. She's at openings, she's writing reviews, she's telling anyone who will listen about artists she believes in. For over a decade, her blog Diversions LA has been quietly, consistently documenting the Southern California art scene because she genuinely loves...

 
We’re very pleased to announce that the first in our The Colour Library series, BLUE, is now available to order now from the Shutter Hub shop!
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives. Our first edition is dedicated to blue.
A colour of depth and distance. Blue is a language. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue can evoke calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow.
From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes, within these pages...