Four triangular timber volumes shape coastal ‘house of cards’
 
House of Cards is a coastal residence in Koksijde, Belgium, designed by Vantieghem Talebi around the structural and zoning constraints of an existing foundation. The new house follows the foundation’s asymmetrical cruciform geometry, with each triangular bay forming a distinct volume resembling a house of cards. The design is limited to the maximum permitted height and draws on the steep rooflines of traditional beach houses in the area.
 
The exterior is clad in a timber rainscreen made from chemically seasoned Douglas fir battens, which continue across the steeply pitched roofs to create a consistent envelope. Prefabricated battens...

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Reclaimed wooden cider press screw forms sculptural stool
 
LE PRESSOIR is a sculptural stool by Studio Jumel in collaboration with Ariane Ronot, made from a French cider press dating to the 1930s. Rooted in Normandy’s apple-growing and cider-making traditions, the design reuses the original wooden screw mechanism as the stool’s four legs, retaining the aged texture and irregularities accumulated through decades of use.
 
A cross-shaped structure made from 3 mm-thick aluminum connects the wooden elements, contrasting the material’s precise finish with the timber’s weathered surface. Its openwork form references apple blossoms, while the seat’s helical profile echoes the original screw...

In a 1940 photograph by Man Ray, Academy Award-winning actor Teresa Wright poses misty-eyed alongside an ancient Chacmool sculpture. The reclining figure, with its head contorted toward viewers, offered a refreshed vision of modernity to both Hollywood stars and a growing clientele of collectors and museums interested in pre-colonial art from ancient Mesoamerica. In 1947, for instance, the Minneapolis Institute of Art purchased a “King Chak Mool” for $10,000. That sculpture toured Europe as part of an exhibition from 1958 to 1960 and quickly became a cornerstone of the museum’s collection. Just a decade later, one specialist made a dreaded discovery: The sculpture was a forgery.This story, and that of...

“Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.” These words, taken from Fran Lebowitz and written on the wall to warn all ye who enter Luhring Augustine’s Chelsea gallery, set up the premise for its current group show: settle for a good fantasy.It’s an admittedly juicy quotation. So juicy, indeed, that the gallery has hung Shaun Pierson’s photograph of a very voluptuous strawberry — seriously, it’s like the Venus of Willendorf of strawberries — right next to it, as if to underscore the point: Photography is always chasing a fantasy.Shaun Pierson, "Untitled (Strawberry on Lace)" (2026), archival pigment printThe exhibition’s main room leans into this, showing portraiture's...

Materials for the Arts (MFTA) is launching a new free shopping program for artists who receive city-funded grants on October 19, nearly three weeks after Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Department for Cultural Affairs (DCLA) announced that they are doubling grants for individual artists and small nonprofits in New York City. The new MFTA program functions as a free supply base for the selected artists, who can now receive up to $10,000 in city-funded grants, which had remained at a $5,000 cap for the last 20 years. The organization will open its 35,000-square-foot warehouse to artist grantees on the second Monday of every month (apart from federal holidays) from 3 pm to 6 pm, offering materials such as leather...

As strange as it may sound, Johannes Vermeer’s fame is a relatively recent phenomenon. The Dutch painter known for his exquisite, enigmatic interior scenes fell into obscurity shortly after he died deeply in debt at only 43 years old in 1675. Vermeer was barely a footnote in the annals of art history until the mid-19th century, when the Parisian critic Théophile Thoré rediscovered his work. “Here’s someone we don’t know in France, and who very much deserves to be known!” the writer proclaimed in 1866. Thoré was drawn to Vermeer for the same reason he still fascinates museumgoers today: His small selection of attributed paintings — some 35 to date — and still-hazy biography spark more...

Finnegan Shannon’s There's no me without you at Pioneer Works considers the fragility of systems and the consequences of their breakdown for disabled bodies. The installation is a 12-foot-long square conveyor belt — think conveyor-belt sushi — in a maroon-carpeted room that carries and displays objects for visitors to interact with, from plush chairs to open spaces for individuals who can’t access the seating. Masks, accessible text, hand sanitizer, DIY air purifiers, and descriptive audio are also available, defining Shannon’s vision for an equitable, gentle engagement with art.Three artists will be presented during the show’s run. For the first month, Ariana Martinez places small objects in...

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GHOST BARSTAIRS explores traces left in an empty building in Seoul
 
Design studio Sukchulmok and artist Kangyeon Lee present GHOST BARSTAIRS: Temporary Hypotheses in a vacant reinforced-concrete building in Sinsa-dong, Seoul, shortly before its demolition is completed. With accumulated finishes removed, the building’s exposed structural frame becomes the setting for an exhibition exploring the space between its former use and an undefined future.
 
The title outlines three elements of the project: GHOST, referring to traces of what has disappeared; BAR, describing rigid lines that establish new structures and boundaries; and STAIRS, suggesting layers and movement through vertical space. Light entering...

MAINZ, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the Leibniz Center for Archaeology (LEIZA), Aleksandr Diachenko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Detlef Gronenborn of LEIZA and Johannes Gutenberg University evaluated the roles of population size, production capacity, and information exchange in societal changes through pottery. “We developed a mathematical model to describe how the organization and intensity of pottery production can influence the number of decoration styles,” said Diachenko. “Additionally, the model reveals how pottery styles evolve through human information exchange and population growth,” he explained. The study examined 7,000-year-old pottery from the Linear...

Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, an Austrian economist, analyst, and 2028 presidential hopeful, has declared his intent to return a 16th-century feather headdress to Mexico if he is elected. The artifact is from the Aztec or Mexica civilization, and was possibly worn by Emperor Moctezuma II, is currently at the Weltmuseum in Vienna. Fehlinger-Jahn told the Art Newspaper […]

Rogier Kalkers from Amsterdam’s Allard Pierson museum says he hopes the restitution will be a “stepping stone towards further collaboration” with Sicilian authorities

NICOSIA, CYPRUS—Mourners living in Cyprus some 3,400 years ago may have burned bouquets of whole plants during burial ceremonies, according to the Greek Reporter. Charred plant remains were found in four tombs at Hala Sultan Tekke, the site of an ancient harbor city on the island's southeastern coast. Teresa Bürge of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and her colleagues detected burnt plant remains in two ceramic jugs recovered from one of the tombs. Analysis of the residues determined that one of the vessels held barley, several varieties of wheat, figs, lentils, marigold, chrysanthemum, mallow, and viola. A Mycenaean-style jar in another tomb contained evidence of cereals, wild grasses, and flowering plants...

A pair of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir that were stolen last month from the artist’s namesake museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, were found by local officials. Six people thought to have been connected with the crime have been arrested. Bryan Masson, the mayor of the French Riviera town that is home to the violated Musée Renoir, […]

The organizers of the Bangkok Art Biennale have revealed the seventy-two artists and collectives participating in the fifth iteration of the event, to take place October 29, 2026–February 28, 2027. The exhibition is being shaped by Thai curator and art historian Apinan Poshyananda, who has served as artistic director since the Biennale’s 2018 founding. He […]

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BARCELONA, SPAIN—La Brújula Verde reports that 13 impressions left in travertine in northeastern Spain's Abric Romaní rock shelter have been identified as wooden tools made by Neanderthals who lived in the region between 40,000 and 62,000 years ago. According to Palmira Saladié, Gema Chacón, and Josep Vallverdú of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, the impressions were made when the wooden objects were coated with water rich in calcium carbonate. The wood eventually decayed but left a hollow in the sediments. In all, the rock shelter contains about 66 feet of sediments laid down over thousands of years. The objects were found in different layers of these sediments. Two...

Lehmann Maupin and Gallery Wendi Norris will collaborate on a two-part exhibition pairing the work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington and artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña for the first time. The first part of the exhibition, titled “Leonora Carrington & Cecilia Vicuña,” will open at Lehmann Maupin in New York on November 19, while the second part will open at Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco in January. The two parts have distinct checklists, to accommodate for the different scale of each location, though the parts share some overlap. Dealer Wendi Norris proposed the show to Rachel Lehmann, one of Lehmann Maupin’s cofounders, a few years ago. Lehmann was reminded of the conversation after...

The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) has named Dr. Mary Deleary (Chippewas of the Thames First Nation) director of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in Santa Fe. She begins her new role on October 19. Deleary is the current director of the IAIA Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts (RCCNA). As […]

A dispute between the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science over how much the government should contribute to the museum’s renovation and ongoing building costs has been settled through mediation. The museum had asked for an increase of €2.5 million (approximately $2.8 million) a year in its […]

Right-wing governments across the region are cutting cultural budgets and recasting the arts around conservative values

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TAREK ATOUI TRANSFORMS TATE MODERN’S TURBINE HALL
 
The vast industrial interior of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall is about to find its own voice. Lebanese artist and composer Tarek Atoui takes over the London museum’s iconic space with a large-scale sound installation opening on October 13th, 2026. Created for the 11th Hyundai Commission, the site-specific work brings together experimental musical instruments, sculptural structures, and acoustic experiences that extend beyond conventional listening. Rather than simply filling the hall with music, Atoui approaches the architecture itself as an instrument, exploring how sound can travel through space, materials, and the human body.
 
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BIG raises cloud-like building above public park in albania
 
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) wins the Fountain Plaza Tirana international design competition with a proposal that raises the building above a park-like public realm in Tirana, Albania. The project combines elevated building volumes, a translucent facade, and a network of slender columns to create an architecture that remains open to the landscape. BIG approaches the site as a continuous public environment, integrating an open-access library, community facilities, and a covered public auditorium with the surrounding greenery.
  The proposal rests on the idea that the building and landscape should operate as one. A dense field of slender, cane-like...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Cindy Sherman is the cover star of the second volume of Chanel’s Arts & Culture magazine. Austrian presidential candidate Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn says that if elected, he’ll return a 16th-century Aztec headdress to Mexico, currently located in Vienna’s Weltmuseum. A descendant of the 19th-century artist Jules-Eugène Lenepveu is taking legal action to demand the removal of Marc Chagall’s painting on the ceiling of the Palais Garnier opera house. The Headlines SHERMAN IN CHANEL TWEED. On October 23, Chanel is dropping the second volume of Arts & Culture, its free 300-page magazine,...

Opera Baltimore strikes out with an uninspired production of Don Giovanni. 

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The Lebanese artist and composer has created a sonic installation incorporating bespoke instruments that respond to Tate Modern’s vast atrium

“Every museum is a place of memory, beauty and history”, said the pontiff to an audience that included the directors of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Plus a marble torso of a Roman emperor and an Augustan marble portrait head of a girl

I find it unfathomable that Frederica Von Stade is 81 years old, for to me she is eternally 31.

In San Francisco, an autumnal Renée Fleming proves she can still work her magic with Strauss's Four Last Songs.

For me - sheer fun and joy.

Austin Opera inaugurates its new permanent home with Ofrenda, an intimate tribute to the city's Latine community.

The latest attempt to halt the impending construction of President Donald Trump’s 250-foot-tall triumphal arch involves a local government body. The five-member Arlington County Board filed a lawsuit Thursday in the Eastern District of Virginia, related to the project’s questionable review process. Democracy Forward, the advocacy group representing the Board, along with the Arlington County attorney’s office, referred to the proposal as a “vanity project” that would be “massively intrusive and harmful.” Democracy Forward notes November 5 as the date of the National Capital Planning Commission’s next meeting, at which point the committee could “rubber stamp” the start of construction. The...

The Renoir Museum is getting back two of its paintings that were taken during a pre-dawn raid. The paintings were recovered by the local authorities in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, where the museum is located. Mayor Bryan Masson, a member of France’s far-right National Rally, said in a statement that these “two paintings are far more than works of art. They are part of our city’s history, our cultural heritage and the legacy Auguste Renoir left to Cagnes-sur-Mer. Their recovery is a tremendous relief for the people of Cagnes-sur-Mer and for everyone who cares deeply about our museum.” The stolen paintings were Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano (1910) and Jeune fille au puits (1886), which are...

Mesolithic baby tooth TRIESTE, ITALY—La Brújula Verde reports that a camp used by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers has been found just underneath artifacts left by the first farmers of the Neolithic period in intact archaeological layers in Tina Jama, a mountain cave on the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Federico Bernardini of Ca’ Foscari University, Elena Leghissa of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and their colleagues suggest that farmers arrived in the region some 7,500 years ago. Prior to the arrival of farming in the region, hunter-gatherers built a hearth in the most sheltered part of the cave. They also closed off the cave entrance with stones and blocks. Stone tools, waste flakes from...

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,” economist and computer scientist Herbert Simon warned in 1971. In our era of digital overload, it feels increasingly urgent—ironically—to remember to slow down. Too often we’re distracted by one thing or the next, looking down at our screens or paying attention to our surroundings just briefly enough to snap a photo before moving on. Jonathan Knight is captivated instead by the quiet moments, the beauty in stillness, and the gentle, gradual changes around us that take time to fully appreciate. Known for his ethereal, minimalist images, Knight conceived of Exhale as a way to explore the nuances of color and “the emotional experience of...

OSLO, NORWAY—Additional ring ditches have been discovered at the Hunn burial ground in eastern Norway with ground-penetrating radar, according to a Science Norway report. Standing stone circles are known to have stood in the South Field some 2,000 years ago. The newly uncovered circles were found in the West Field, where traces of large burial mounds remain. “They may have made the circle first in order to plan the construction of the burial monument, or it may have formed because people walked in a circle around it,” said Anne Lene Melheim of Norway’s Museum of Cultural History. Several possible graves have also been spotted in the area. “We are quite certain that standing stones were erected...

 
When we say ‘think of the colour yellow’, what comes up for you? Our latest photobook, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: YELLOW, is bursting with inspiration, from delicate blossoms and ripe lemons to eye-catching clothing and sunny décor.
Across 100 photos, our photographers celebrate all things yellow: some chanced upon in the street or in nature, others meticulously planned. Of course, there are loads of different hues that count as yellow, from acidic brights to mustard, egg yolk, and canary. You’ll find them all in the book!
The cover image, by Jo Martindale, submerges us in a ball pit of yellow plastic balls: it’s immersive, fun, and hard to look away. The yellow we find around us definitely has multiple...

A painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will be auctioned at Christie’s as part of its Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale in London on October 21. Amaryllis Lily (1948) carries an estimate of £300,000–£500,000 ($396,000–$661,000). The painting depicts a red amaryllis belladonna, otherwise known as a March lily, blooming in a plant pot situated on a table against a dark backdrop. Churchill gave the painting to his daughter, Lady Mary Soames, who then donated it in 1995 to the Churchill Fellowship. Proceeds from the sale will be used to support Churchill Fellowship’s “Making Space for the Arts” program. “Amaryllis Lily is a striking example of Winston Churchill’s...

“I left my hometown / My hometown appears,” begins a poem by artist Shuling Guo titled “Temple II,” which shares its name with her forthcoming solo exhibition at Hollis Taggart Downtown. Drawing on sacred symbolism and nature, Guo delves into her memories of growing up in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, China, and the area’s unique mixture of spiritual and folk traditions. Her dreamlike, symmetrical works speak to the harmony of the cosmos as much as they nod to the balance of life and the sublime. Guo’s paintings in Temple II explore memory, presence, and loss, and their creation coincided with both the birth of her daughter and the death of her grandmother. Burgeoning blossoms, delicate flames,...

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To celebrate the retrospective exhibition Future Pastime featuring the work of futurist Syd Mead opening at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery in San Francisco this evening, we are showing previews of paintings from the show as well as the full article which Silke Tudor wrote on the late legendary industrial designer in Hi-Fructose Issue 33. […]
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Stumbling upon a battered end table or lost mitten is an opportunity for magic in Woo Jin Joo’s mind. The Seoul-born artist is known to gather furniture, garments, and other objects that have been left behind while walking near her home in London or commuting to her studio in Deptford. “I am not actively looking for anything in particular, but I discover them by happenstance, and they become meaningful; they provoke my imagination,” she says. “This is how I feel like we conjure meaning in our lives.” Combined with clay and shiny, viscose thread, these found items transform into uncanny sculptures that often meld animal bodies with domestic fixtures. Human-sized figures cloaked in costumes of white...

Flowers for eyes, a horizon for a mouth… a popsicle for a holy relic? Rafael Silveira has long been interested in what he describes as “visual synonymies,” which he likens to “formal correspondences between seemingly unrelated things, moments in which one image unexpectedly recognizes itself in another.” The Brazilian artist’s surreal paintings replace facial features with landforms, flora, and fauna, sometimes hybridizing animals, figures, and other objects. The works seen here were recently included in the artist’s solo exhibition Popsicledelic Trip at KP Projects Gallery in Los Angeles alongside a show by Silveira’s wife, the artist Flávia Itiberê. A series of vertical pieces with ornate,...

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Twenty years ago, National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore set out on a deceptively simple multi-year mission: to create a photo archive of biodiversity. Documenting around a thousand animals each year, his ultimate goal is a portrait catalogue showcasing more than 25,000 species. As of this writing, Sartore has documented 18,567 animals, including the new species of cat recently discovered in Bolivia. In zoos, aquariums, wildlife sanctuaries, and more, he collaborates with conservationists and researchers to document an awe-inspiring yet tiny fraction of life on our planet. Sartore’s Photo Ark project illuminates animals against plain black or white backgrounds, highlighting their distinctive...

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The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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In the “feminist west” that lives on Jennifer Nehrbass’s canvases, women ride horseback and hike in fashionable attire. They appear in head-and-shoulder portraits against fiery backgrounds and nude in pieces where figurative and landscape painting converge. In her work, Nehrbass challenges the common depictions of the U.S. West. “You would always have the man who […]
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With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.

The 80th Issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon! It includes a cover a feature on the paper collages of Lola Dupre, the Fluffy Vases of Shishi San, the installation paintings of Evgenia Voinar, Debbie Lawson’s textile sculptures, painter Rob Browning’s stark surrealism.  Plus a Special Insert Section focused on the art of Jeff Sheridan, Andrea […]
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Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...

 
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...

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...