I visited Linda Mary Montano at her home in Saugerties, New York, on a snowy morning in late January. When I entered, I was transported into a living shrine, and the octogenarian artist gracefully hovered about as if she were the resident angel. After a warm welcome, she floated upstairs to put on her “Chicken Linda” outfit, which allowed me a moment to take in the scene. Montano views chickens as divine in disguise, and she gave herself the name “Chicken Linda” as a way to connect with the Holy Spirit. Filled with sacred altars, experimental sculptures, and religious iconography at every turn, Montano’s abode  — the same family home she grew up in — reflects her 60-year journey as a devoted...

On the heels of an uninspiring AI tribute to Leo Messi at Christie's last year, one of the greatest artworks about soccer — or football, as it should be called — ever created is coming to New York City this summer.Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's “Zidane, a 21st century portrait,” a 2006 film celebrating French soccer legend Zinédine Zidane, will be screened from June 11 to July 19 at the Guggenheim Museum, timed with the first and last whistles of the FIFA World Cup.The two-channel video piece has a deceptively simple premise: a 90-minute match between Real Madrid and Villarreal shot entirely from the perspective of Zidane, the attacking midfielder known for his sophisticated passes,...

The Viginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced a donation of nearly 2000 photographs from the Joy of Giving Something Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to the photographic arts. The gift comprises works spanning the 19th century and the present day by more than 450 artists. The gift comes from the holdings of financier and former Dreyfus Corporation chief Howard Stein (1926–2011), who began collecting photography in the 1980s. A notable underwriter of photography exhibitions and books, Stein started the Joy of Giving Something Foundation (JGS) with his wife Janet in 1998 to advance art and educational programming in the field. In 2017, JGS began donating works from Steins’s collection to selected museums and...

This fall, the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) in East Harlem will open the Puffin Foundation Center for Social Activism, dedicated to civic engagement, social justice, and the city’s rich history as a hotbed of political organizing. The center will replace the museum’s Puffin Foundation Gallery for Social Activism, which opened in 2012 and is home to the permanent rotating exhibition Activist New York. The namesake Puffin Foundation, a nonprofit founded by Perry Rosenstein that awards grants to artists and art organizations to tell the stories of marginalized groups, is funding the renovation and expansion with an $8 million donation, the second-largest in the museum’s history. “We're...

A Paris judge has rejected a request to halt the removal of six 19th-century stained-glass windows by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc from Notre-Dame Cathedral, which are to be replaced by government-commissioned contemporary works, dealing a blow to the preservationist campaign opposing the project. According to the Paris Administrative Court, the administrative judge reasoned that because the new windows by artist Claire Tabouret and glassmakers Simon-Marq could conceivably be removed in the future, and the original Viollet-le-Duc windows will be carefully preserved, the project does not constitute an irreversible alteration to the Gothic landmark. Consequently, the judge continued, the matter does not meet the...

The May 19 evening sales at top auction houses Sotheby’s and Phillips pulled in a combined $419.1 million, seeming to signal that the hitherto softening contemporary and modern art market is beginning to firm up again. Led by the record-breaking sale of a $48.4 million Matisse, the Sotheby’s evening sale took in $303.9 million, about […]

New York-based arts nonprofit A Blade of Grass (ABoG) has revealed the three members of the 2026 In Fellowship cohort. Established in 2025, the In Fellowship initiative annually provides three individuals or groups with $25,000 apiece in support of their respective socially engaged practices, as well as a $25,000 honorarium. The aim of the program […]

If you want to participate in Pat Perry’s new photo project, you’ll have to get comfortable heading outside, grabbing a few friends, and preparing to hunt low and high for obscure spots in your neighborhood. The Detroit-based artist recently launched “Liminal Bingo,” a communal photo hunt designed specifically “for people ages 5 to 105 living in boring places or exciting places.” Open to anyone with an internet connection, the project has a simple premise: grab a camera (phones are okay, although Perry encourages film if possible), and snap photos of his illustrated prompts. When you’ve collected five in a row, you’ve got a bingo! The instructions, though, are less straightforward than the...

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) President Ravi S. Rajan was met with loud boos from students at the school's graduation ceremony last Friday, May 15. As Rajan took the stage to deliver his commencement address, students held signs that read “Hold the Admin Accountable” and “Save Our Faculty & Staff” in front of the lectern, references to recent financial issues and staff layoffs at the esteemed Southern California art school.  “Graduates, today is about you, not me,” Rajan insisted as the chorus of boos swelled. After delivering the line, “Some of you have told me that the future feels like something that is happening to you, rather than something you are shaping,” Charmaine...

At long last, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) has revealed six commission proposals for a monument celebrating the legacy of groundbreaking jazz vocalist Billie Holiday. Through the Percent for the Art program, Holiday's monument will be installed outside the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Queens, where the singer lived and performed. DCLA has invited members of the public to share their input on the conceptual designs by Thomas J Price, Tanda Francis, Nekisha Durrett, La Vaughn Belle, Tavares Strachan, and Nikesha Breeze to help inform the final selection. Renderings of each artist's proposal and supporting text are available on the DCLA website, depicting the myriad ways...

Harald Metzkes, the so-called “Cézannist of Prenzlauer Berg” who made classically indebted and symbolically rich paintings following Germany’s surrender in World War II, died last Thursday in Brandenburg at the age of 97. His death was confirmed to the German Press Agency by his son, the sculptor Robert Metzkes. “Metzkes became particularly well-known in East Germany because he had no interest in socialist realism,” wrote Monopol, which asserted that he created his own “world theater” in work that wriggled free of East German strictures. The magazine quoted Robert Metzkes saying, of his father, “He wasn’t concerned with implementing cultural policy demands.” Metzkes was born in 1929 in...

Last night, the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted its annual gala, honoring artist Julie Mehretu—who in 2024 donated $2.25 million to the museum to ensure that visitors aged 25 and younger can visit the museum for free—alongside Whitney Board Chair Fern Kaye Tessler, and former Whitney Museum director Adam D. Weinberg.Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1970, Mehretu’s painting, drawing, and printmaking practice examines the nature of contemporary existence through the relationships between geometric abstraction, figuration, and scale. She rose to acclaim in the late 1990s and early 2000s with spare paintings of fragmented shapes featuring architectural images of buildings or plans. But, as seen in her...

When Powerhouse Parramatta, the enormous new cultural center opening in the city of Parramatta west of Sydney, Australia, opens later this year, a new commission by the British-Indian sculptor Bharti Kher will welcome visitors as the entrance. Art Asia Pacific reported the news. The sculpture, titled Tree of Life, will be monumental in scale and will be made up of four stacked bronze and clay heads. Tree of Life is part of Kher’s ongoing “Intermediaries” series, which she began making in 2016. Many of these large-scale sculptures re-create or transform fragments of found ritual objects into hybrid creatures. The Powerhouse Parramatta commission is not Kher’s first foray into public art: from fall 2022...

The objects were recovered through investigations into trafficking networks, including those linked to convicted smuggler Subhash Kapoor and trafficker Nancy Wiener

On Wednesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation released its annual list of the most endangered historic sites in the United States. While some locations on the shortlist were included due to threats of redevelopment and environmental decay, others–including several commemorating sites of civil rights struggles–face political challenges from the Trump Administration. Earlier this year, […]

The Tel Aviv-based group Shurat Hadin is urging the museum in Winnipeg to pause its upcoming exhibition on the Nakba and its legacy to allow for a “legal and scholarly review”

"Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė will make her company debut singing the role of Minnie in the new production of Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West, replacing Sondra Radvanovsky, who has withdrawn due to personal reasons."

The Sainsbury Centre, a highly popular art museum in Norwich England, announced this week that it had received a donation of £91.2 million from the politician and philanthropist Lord David Sainsbury. The donation, which represents one of the largest ever made to a museum in the U.K., will go towards the extensive refurbishment of the […]

Curved forms and layered privacy organize Singh Residence
 
Singh Residence by Hdeco (Habitat Design Collective) is located in Noida, India, and explores the idea of a contemporary multi-generational home in which grandparents, parents, and children share a common domestic environment while maintaining varying degrees of privacy. The project is informed by Vastu principles (vernacular Indian architecture principles), daylight access, natural cross-ventilation, and a spatial language defined by soft, curved forms rather than rigid geometries.
 
The site is enclosed on three sides by neighboring properties, creating constraints for direct light and airflow while requiring compliance with local building by-laws...

“Paintings arrive at the studio in all states of disrepair,” shares art conservator Julian Baumgartner, who receives artworks in need of attention all the time. He adds, “It is, however, odd to have a painting arrive in a manner that can’t help but make one wonder just how bad it is.” An anonymous portrait was indeed folded inside a parcel that itself had been mangled enough in transit to make one think, Is this going to be salvageable? For the highly trained painting restorer, though, “Fortune favors the fold.” Baumgartner has seen his fair share of bad overpainting and, in this case, pretty substantial creases, tears, and worn-away paint. He runs Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, a...

From curator Koyo Kouoh’s foregrounding of “all earthly elements” to Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo's new sustainable art island, references to the environment can be found throughout the Italian city

One of the six shortlisted designs, by artists including Tavares Strachan and Thomas J Price, will be chosen this summer and erected at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Queens

JCB’s hydrogen-powered Hydromax chases 350 mph
 
JCB is taking hydrogen power to the Bonneville Salt Flats with Hydromax, a long, low land speed car built to chase 350 mph across the Utah desert. Better known for its yellow excavators and construction machines, the British company is now putting its hydrogen combustion technology into a very different kind of vehicle: a record-seeking, racer with 1,600 horsepower, two engines, and fighter pilot Andy Green behind the wheel.
 
Andy Green is a familiar name at Bonneville. In 2006, he drove JCB’s Dieselmax to 350.092 mph, setting the diesel land speed record in a car that translated industrial engine technology into pure speed. Hydromax picks up that thread...

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The American tenor, who made a triumphant mid-career comeback in 2022, has died.

Ron Howard's documentary, which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is enjoyable even as it treads well-worn ground and repeats familiar anecdotes

Oceans cover nearly three-quarters of our planet, containing a staggering 96.5 percent of its water. And despite our ever-advancing technologies and cartographic tools, we’ve still only mapped about a tenth of the earth’s oceans. There’s so much we have yet to see or understand, but our reliance on things like fossil fuels and single-use plastics continue to have an indelible impact on the health of marine wildlife and habitats. Arch Enemy Arts’ forthcoming exhibition, Common Waters, brings these concerns to the fore. From the ethereal weirdness of jellyfish to the delicate branches of corals, the works not only touch on the incredible biodiversity below the surface, but also remind us of the ocean’s...

Tens Atelier revives 1970s rural auditorium as Stone-oven Bakery
 
Cycle&Cycle Stone-oven Bakery Restaurant by Tens Atelier is located in Shangwang Village, Fusheng Town, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China. The building was originally constructed in the 1970s as a rural auditorium, associated with Nixon’s visit to China and carrying a specific historical context. In 2022, Cycle&Cycle acquired the construction and usage rights, initiating renovation and structural reconstruction, which was completed by the end of 2023. In early 2025, the program was redefined as a rural stone-oven bakery, and Tens Atelier was commissioned to develop the interior spatial design.
 
The site is shaped by a natural topography that rises...

Few photographers have altered the trajectory of contemporary image-making as profoundly as Joel Meyerowitz. Born in New York in 1938, Meyerowitz emerged as one of the defining visual voices of post-war America, transforming colour photography from a medium associated with advertising and vernacular snapshots into a serious artistic language capable of emotional and philosophical depth. Across six decades, his work has reshaped the possibilities of street photography, landscape, portraiture, and visual narrative, always guided by an acute sensitivity to light, atmosphere, and human presence. Alongside contemporaries such as William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, Meyerowitz established colour photography as an...

Clémence de Grandval’s Mazeppa gets the superhero treatment in Dortmund.

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Handel's Deidamia — and one of its current champions, soprano Sophie Junker — are the subject of this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag.

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pneumatic environments and the politics of impermanence
 
Inflatable environments, atmospheric installations, suspended membranes, and pneumatic structures persistently resurface across museums, biennales, galleries, and public space, often reappearing in moments marked by instability, exhaustion, and shifting social conditions, yet almost always generating a peculiar sense of wonder and lightness. Forms drift above visitors’ heads, pulse with circulating air, or dissolve into fog, transforming atmosphere itself into something tactile.
 
From Tomás Saraceno’s airborne ecosystems and the lingering afterlife of Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Blur Building to the radical experiments of Ant Farm,...

In an age defined by the incessant circulation of images, photography has become less a discrete medium than an ambient condition. Pictures arrive and depart with such velocity that looking is often reduced to a kind of reflex – a flicker of attention rather than sustained encounter. The photograph, once anchored in the idea of duration, now behaves like a surface of perpetual present tense, endlessly refreshed and endlessly displaced. However, within this saturation, photography festivals have become increasingly important as counter-temporal spaces – environments in which images are slowed, recontextualised and recharged through proximity, scale and sequence. They function as temporary architectures of...

NEW PERSPECTIVE OF ARCHITECTURAL MATERIAL COMMUNICATION
 
Architect’26, under the theme ‘SATI: WISDOM: PROMPT’, marks its presence at Southeast Asia’s largest building technology exposition. It brings together architects, designers, and material manufacturers to create eight ‘Thematic Pavilions’ spanning circular construction, material experimentation, wellness-focused environments, and adaptive spatial design. Within this initiative, Architect Expo shapes a new perspective on how architecture can communicate material innovation beyond conventional formats, translating technical material properties into immersive spatial experiences that visitors could physically engage with through movement,...

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Intricate webs. Cloud cities. Hot air balloons. Tomás Saraceno (b. 1973) bridges art, architecture and science. The Argentinian-born, Berlin-based artist creates projects that connect across cultures and disciplines to deepen our attunement to other living beings. His research-based works respond to global questions posed by the Anthropocene, asking how we can live better – in particular, live better as a collective – in a world blighted by air pollution, increased carbon emissions and global warming. Saraceno brings his most ambitious show to date to Munich’s Haus der Kunst. Ancestral Futures, which opens in July, traces a unique journey through the artist’s practice, marking significant step forward...

Nato nel 1971 a Charleston, South Carolina, e attualmente di base a New York, Maxwell Stevens ha stabilito il disegno come pietra angolare della sua pratica, elevandolo a linguaggio visivo autonomo. In questa intervista, l’artista rivela la sua fascinazione per l’immediatezza e la materialità delle opere su carta, dove linea e superficie servono come veicoli dinamici per il pensiero e la riflessione emotiva. Esplorando la tensione tra figurazione e astrazione, Stevens ci invita a vedere il disegno come uno spazio intimo, “palinsestico” che, nella sua semplicità elementale, cattura la complessità frammentata della nostra esperienza contemporanea.
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Nestled amid plants native to the U.K., a giant figure of Gaia, or Mother Nature, sleeps in a verdant garden. With willow-branch locks shaped by artist Tom Hare and a crown of leaves, the figure’s face and shoulders are made from a fallen mature tree carved by Tim Wood. A winding pathway leads beneath an arch that extends the character’s torso, created in the tradition of dry stone walls and meticulously assembled by the family-run outfit Noble Stonework. You’ll find Gaia in a garden titled “On the Edge” at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which has taken the top prize of Garden of the Year. The project is a collaboration between designer Sarah Eberle and Campaign to Protect Rural England...

By Mary Singh Los Angeles has been in a prolonged conversation about monuments. Co-organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art and The Brick, and co-curated by Hamza Walker, Kara Walker, and Bennett Simpson, earlier this year, "MONUMENTS" brought ten decommissioned Confederate statues into the Geffen Contemporary's vast industrial space, placing them in direct dialogue with contemporary works by nineteen artists. Praised by the Los Angeles Times as "the most significant show in an American...

Blue-chip auction house Christie’s pulled in $1.1 billion in back-to-back sales held the evening of May 18, thanks to record-setting prices commanded by numerous works on offer. Chief among these was an eleven-foot-wide 1948 Jackson Pollock drip painting, Number 7A, which entered the sale with a $100 million guarantee and hammered for $181.2 million with […]

Incorporating nearly two tons of porcelain fragments, a monumental pair of vessels spills out into a pool of lustrous green. Shards of broken cups and saucers, pots, and other voluptuous forms blanket the gallery of the Green-House at Green-Wood for a new installation by Jean Shin. Celadon Landscape is one of the latest projects in which the artist transforms a singular material into a sprawling sculpture. Found objects that bear traces of their former purposes and users are prized possessions in Shin’s New York studio, as these often-discarded items are nested into dynamic works that consider the relationship between consumption, environmental care, and community. Green-Wood presents the second iteration of...

Alla Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, la prima personale istituzionale italiana di Lenz Geerk, Theatre of the Mind, si presenta come un dispositivo percettivo in cui la pittura regola le circostanze dell’apparizione. La mostra elabora un campo in cui sagoma, spazio e tempo non si danno simultaneamente, ma come scansioni differite, in cui la visione arriva sempre leggermente dopo il proprio accadere. Nei dipinti di Geerk non si dispiegano rappresentazioni semplici. Figure, oggetti e situazioni coesistono in configurazioni instabili e gli elementi non tendono a una sintesi, ma rimangono in uno stato di connessione irrisolta, in cui ciò che affiora non coincide mai davvero con ciò che si compie.
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Between the rhythms of global capital and the architectures of digital life, meaning today is produced in spaces where the physical and the virtual are no longer distinct but mutually constitutive. Labour, identity, memory and desire circulate through systems of automation, simulation and networked communication that reshape how experience is felt and represented. Within this condition, contemporary art becomes a site for testing the limits of perception itself – a way of registering how subjectivity is formed under technological pressure. It is here that the work of Cao Fei finds its urgency, staging a world in which utopia and exhaustion, play and infrastructure, coexist in uneasy proximity. Her practice...

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Uluru stands at the heart of Australia’s “Red Centre.” The sandstone monolith, rising 348 metres above the desert, has stood for 550 million years. The natural wonder is a symbol of Aboriginal land rights and a source of spiritual connection with the continent. Artist Bruce Munro (b. 1959) visited the site in the 1980s. The trip, which began as part of a journey around Australia, marked a turning point in both his life and artist trajectory. The location inspired Field of Light, an installation of 50,000 solar powered stems, which illuminates an area the size of seven football fields. The piece, first opened in 2016, was intended to be a one-year exhibition, but has since received 750,000 visitors...

Si entra subito nel cuore del tema centrale osservando le immagini del fotografo colombiano Felipe Romero Beltrán: Bravo è il titolo del progetto che esplora il dramma dell’attraversamento del confine tra Messico e Stati Uniti, costituito dal fiume nel titolo, il Rio Bravo. Eppure, non vediamo figure umane nell’atto di passare il guado, ma soprattutto oggetti, sedie, materassi, pentolame, cortili senza persone, reliquie religiose, e luoghi che ci fanno capire che qualcuno da lì è passato. Come uno spettro. Fantasmi del quotidiano è il leitmotiv della XXI edizione del Festival della Fotografia Europea, realizzata con la curatela di Walter Guadagnini, Arianna Catania, Tim Clark e Luce Lebart.
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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...

C’è qualcosa di controcorrente, nel senso migliore del termine, in una manifestazione che occupa un intero weekend per parlare di terracotta. Eppure, Buongiorno Ceramica!, giunta alla sua dodicesima edizione il 23 e 24 maggio 2026, è una delle poche occasioni in cui il termine “diffuso” – spesso abusato dal lessico delle arti contemporanee – riacquista una misura concreta e verificabile. Sessanta comuni italiani, più di cinquecento eventi, due giorni: la ceramica esce dalle vetrine, scavalca i recinti delle fiere specializzate e torna a occupare la strada, i cortili, le botteghe aperte come fossero stanze di una casa provvisoriamente condivisa.
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All’interno del programma di 480 Site Specific, nello spazio di EDICOLA480 con la direzione artistica di Massimiliano Bastardo, il dipinto I secondi soldati di Gabriele La Torre – pittore palermitano, nato nel 2003 – si impone come un’immagine in apparenza semplice che, a uno sguardo più attento, rivela una costruzione percettiva instabile e stratificata. L’olio su tela lavora su un immaginario immediatamente riconoscibile, quello dei soldatini di plastica, ma ne sovverte la funzione narrativa, trasformandolo in un campo di tensione sospeso tra memoria, ripetizione e dislocazione.
Gabriele La Torre, “I secondi soldati”, olio su tela, 100×85 cm, 2026, ph: Danilo Donzelli Photography, courtesy...

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By Lacey Argus It's easy to miss the bite-sized rainbows orbiting around the travertine surfaces of The Getty Center's Main Entrance. Some people breeze by them, eager to visit the various galleries that lie just beyond them. Others dash through them as they rush into a crowded bathroom line. Some briefly glance upward at the towering glass light prisms suspended from the atrium enclosing the space. But not children. If you spend an afternoon amongst these rainbows, you're sure to notice...

W hen we connect over Zoom, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, aka Shoplifter, is in Bentonville, Arkansas preparing to unveil Xanadu, a large-scale, outdoor installation at Format Festival. “It’s going to be like an alien forest that people at the festival roam around in and space out,” says Arnardóttir of the installation, consisting of ten poles ranging in […]
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What do you get when you combine an obsessive urge to create, sleep deprivation, climate change anxiety, and penchant for enchanted nature realms? Amy Casey shows us firsthand, through her infinitely detailed paintings of manmade structures, either clashing or peacefully coexisting with natural environments. In these pieces we might find repetitions of fungi, leaves, and […]
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