The chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art has resigned after an internal investigation found that approximately $600,000 was allegedly misappropriated over several years and the matter was referred to federal prosecutors, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Brady Lum, who had served as COO since 2019, tendered his resignation on Dec. 9 amid the probe. On Tuesday, the board of the Woodruff Arts Center, which oversees the High, voted to refer the matter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia for possible criminal prosecution, the newspaper reported. Woodruff Arts Center President and CEO Hala Moddelmog told the AJC that Lum allegedly misappropriated...

A new director has been appointed at the Louvre Museum within one day of Laurence des Cars' resignation on February 24. French President Emmanuel Macron named art historian and seasoned museum leader Christophe Leribault, who has helmed the Palace of Versailles since 2024, to steer the crisis-stricken Paris museum through major transitions in the wake of the monumental jewel heist that occurred last October. Following the intense scrutiny and criticism lobbied against des Cars over the infrastructural and surveillance failures that enabled the robbery, Leribault is now expected to carry out “Nouvelle Renaissance,” the massive, multi-year overhaul plan to modernize and fortify the Louvre. In a press...

The women portrayed in Prudence Flint’s paintings are caught in moments of quiet, reflection, and impermanence. They appear fixed in a moment of repose ripe for interruption. Perhaps they are lying on the grass, or changing an infant’s diaper, or awash in warm water mid-shower. Regardless, there is a certain mood shared among her works. Read the full interview with the artist by clicking above!
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Kurimanzutto has appointed Corinna Durland as senior director of its New York gallery, the Mexico City–founded gallery announced Tuesday. Based in New York, Durland will lead the space in close collaboration with the gallery’s founders and partners, with a mandate to strengthen its program in the United States while deepening its international reach. The move comes as kurimanzutto continues to expand its presence in the city, where it first opened a project space in 2018 before establishing a permanent location on West 20th Street in 2022. In a statement, Durland said she was “thrilled to be joining kurimanzutto at such an important moment in the gallery’s evolution and within the broader cultural...

The anniversary edition embraces jazz as both metaphor and method: fluid, responsive and open to transformation

Venetian textile house Rubelli transforms silk into a charged political medium in collaboration with artist and activist Ai Weiwei.

MVRDV begins the EU TUMO Convergence Center in Yerevan
 
Designed by MVRDV, the EU TUMO Convergence Center in Yerevan, Armenia has begun construction on a hillside site overlooking the Hrazdan River Gorge. The project expands TUMO’s campus in Tumanyan Park with a flexible building that brings education, research, and technology companies into a shared environment.
 
Launched in 2011, TUMO provides free training in creative and technical fields and has reached more than 100,000 young people. From its base in Armenia, it has grown to include centers in Paris, Tirana, Berlin, and Mumbai. The new facility in Yerevan expands this mission by accommodating start-ups and industry partners alongside...

First major Venetian exhibition of British artist Jenny Saville, tracing more than three decades of her uncompromising engagement with the human body.

The Venice Biennale has revealed the 105 artists and collectives and six artist-led organizations participating in the main exhibition its sixty-first iteration, to take place May 9–November 22. Titled “In Minor Keys,” the show was conceived by Cameroon-born curator Koyo Kouoh, who died last summer as she was putting it together. The exhibition is being […]

For Marion Pinaffo and Raphaël Pluvinage, a.k.a. Pinaffo & Pluvinage, interaction and play are core tenets of a vibrant multimedia practice. Their kinetic sculptures, which are often participatory and immersive, employ brightly colored wood elements, electronics, and intricate frameworks, sometimes augmented by flowing textiles or colorful smoke that animate with the help of motors or human intervention. Whether installed in a garden, inside a cavernous space, or within a family-friendly museum setting, Pinaffo & Pluvinage’s works invite us to engage with formal elements of shape, material, and scale. The duo released a book last year with Éditions B42 (available in French) that highlights work made during...

One day after Laurence des Cars resigned from her position as president of the Louvre Museum, President Emmanuel Macron appointed Christophe Leribault, the director of the Palace of Versailles, to take her place. The decision, a government spokesperson told Le Parisien, was announced by Macron at the Council of Ministers meeting on Wednesday. Leribault, 63, was appointed to lead Versailles in 2024; there he succeeded Catherine Pégard, whose leadership—like des Cars’s—had been questioned, according to Le Monde. He is a curator with an expertise in 18th-century art. He began his career at Musée Carnavalet in Paris in 1990 and spent 15 years there. He served as a curator in the Louvre’s Department of...

Fernandez draws from an upbringing marked by frequent moves and periods of housing precarity across multiple states.

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The Ralph Fiennes production of Eugene Onegin at the Paris Opera is just...fine.

Concrete Shapes Chado Studio’s Nature-Oriented Workplace
 
Chado Architectural Studio has established its office in a low-density residential area near the Botanical Garden in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The selected site offers reduced urban intensity during working hours and direct visual access to surrounding greenery. The decision to locate the office here was driven by the relationship between workspace and landscape, prioritizing framed views of nature as part of the daily working environment.
 
The building is conceived as a restrained and monolithic volume. Its architectural language emphasizes solidity, durability, and enclosure, creating a controlled environment suited to concentrated creative work....

Christophe Léribault will replace Laurence des Cars following her resignation and Annick Lemoine will take up the vacant position after the sudden death of Sylvain Amic

The team announced the 111 artists and artist collectives—many of whom come from the Global South—that will be included in the exhibition "In Minor Keys"

London-based artist Faithe Yang can turn her hand to both photography and curation. On each sides of the curatorial line, her focus remains the same. The artist’s work explores queer intimacy and cross-cultural exchange, reinterpreting everyday gestures and relaxed scenes through an “othering” perspective. The result is a unique visual dialogue that often employs site-specific or unconventional settings to boost local relevance. Yang’s practice is rooted in challenging dominant narratives around visibility and migration, opening up vital conversations about what it means to truly belong in contemporary society.  One major curatorial undertaking is When the Monsoon Turns East. The exhibition featured...

Aperol and Campari might have some serious competition at the Venice Biennale this year. While spritzes made with those apéritifs is often the drink of choice for collectors, curators, and critics taking a break from the tumult of the opening days of the Biennale, a gin-based cocktail might just be all the rage in La Serenissima this May. The Quattro Gatti Gin has received the title of the “Official Gin of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia” and it will be available at the cafes and restaurants in the Biennale’s two main venues, the Giardini and the Arsenale, as well as official events during the professional preview days. Quattro Gatti Gin was founded by the Mordant...

Veronica Ryan talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesVENICE ROLL CALL. The Venice Biennale has officially named the artists participating in its 2026 edition opening to the public May 9 through November 22. Considered the world’s most important art exhibition, the biennale is gearing up for its 61st edition, titled “In Minor Keys.” It’s already faced one major challenge after its curator, Koyo Kouoh, died suddenly last year. However, her vision is being realised through advisers she appointed. “The minor keys refuse orchestral bombast and goose-step military marches and come alive in the quiet tones, the lower frequencies, the...

His double appearance in Venice is “a major historic first for an Australian artist”, the government body Creative Australia says

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everything announced so far for venice art biennale 2026
 
During the press conference held on February 25th, 2026, at Ca’ Giustinian in San Marco, the curatorial team appointed by the late Koyo Kouoh unveiled the framework of the Venice Art Biennale 2026. Titled In Minor Keys, the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia will run from May 9th to November 22nd, 2026, across the Giardini, the Arsenale, and venues throughout Venice. The pre-opening will take place on May 6, 7, and 8, with the official inauguration and awards ceremony scheduled for May 9.
 
Appointed Artistic Director of the Visual Arts Department in December 2024, Kouoh had fully developed the theoretical framework of the...

no bird robot installation follows cyclical structure
 
No Bird is an art installation by South Korean husband-and-wife artist duo UJOO+LIMHEEYOUNG. Based on a short story about flightless birds, the kinetic work is situated within a diorama-concept installation depicting sand terrain and consists of two mechanical devices that act in a cyclical structure.
 
A robotic bird leaves footprints over sand while another machine follows behind to erase the tracks with a toothbrush, along with a thin wire rake that smooths the sand. Finally, soft bristles flatten the surface to complete the tracks’ erasure.
the bird-like machine walks across the sand, leaving footprints | all images by...

Some countries deplete their budgets on guns and bombs, or tax cuts for billionaires, while others, like Ireland, prefer to spend that money on the well-being of artists. After a successful three-year pilot, the Irish government made its basic income program for artists permanent. Similar pilots have been launched here in the United States, but they're supported primarily by the nonprofit sector. Perhaps American policymakers should read our report below for inspiration. On a separate note, please join me for a virtual chat with artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis on March 2 (3–4pm ET). Damien has authored some of our most talked-about articles in the past two years. We'll discuss his...

George Frideric Handel (born 341 years ago on Monday) composed over 40 operas including many masterpieces, but his Giulio Cesare is the one that everyone knows best.

recycled objects in Diesel’s 2026 runway show in Milan
 
Diesel brings over 50,000 repurposed props, inflatables, and memorabilia to its Fall/Winter 2026 runway show in Milan. A set full of installations built from the brand’s memories since 1978, the space works like a scene after a party, with items placed across the floor and on platforms under white lights. The layout feels like evidence on display, and each object tells a piece of the story from almost fifty years of Diesel’s culture.
 
The installation inside Diesel’s 2026 runway show in Milan focuses on upcycling and reuse. Old props, toys, signs, furniture, and brand pieces are placed together in one large open space, resembling a storage...

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There were nearly 100,000 submissions to be part of the central exhibition at this year’s PhotoVogue Festival. Titled Women by Women, it highlights 45 artists, photographers and video makers who “explore what it means to see as women, examining the many forms, perspectives and lived realities that womanhood can encompass.” The sheer popularity of its open call underscores this statement. The event returns to Milan for its 10th anniversary in March (during the city’s fashion week), where it positions itself as a forward-looking platform. “At a time when women’s rights and identities are increasingly contested, this edition of PhotoVogue Festival affirms women’s vision as a powerful force in its...

Niccolo Sprovieri was maintaining a tradition when he opened a gallery in 2000, as the original Sprovieri Gallery was founded in Rome in 1913

Ruth Asawa’s work arrives into the present with a rare clarity, as if her sculptures had been waiting for this moment to be fully understood. In an era where museums are rethinking narratives and audiences are seeking art that feels ethically and materially grounded, her practice reads as both historical and startlingly contemporary. Her forms do not demand attention through spectacle but through quiet insistence, asking viewers to slow down and consider how space is shaped, occupied and shared. The retrospective currently on view across SFMOMA, MoMA and now the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao proposes continuity as a central theme, not only in Asawa’s formal vocabulary but in her understanding of life as an...

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Cosa accade quando il disegno rinuncia a fissare l’apparenza statica delle cose per inseguire la dimensione processuale di un’azione in corso? Il disegno come pratica di registrazione del movimento umano è il fulcro della ricerca di Morgan O’Hara (Los Angeles, 1941), artista che fin dagli anni Ottanta ha sviluppato un metodo per trasformare la mano in strumento sismografico capace di catturare in tempo reale i flussi gestuali attraverso cui si manifesta la vitalità dei corpi in movimento. La mostra che lo Studio la Linea Verticale di Bologna le dedica raccoglie un cospicuo nucleo di disegni recenti realizzati con questa tecnica, che l’artista definisce Live Transmission, un procedimento attraverso...

The city is eyeing the site, home since 1994 to more than a dozen galleries and arts nonprofits, as a possible location for state-mandated housing development

Dubbed the “vine that ate the South,” the infamous kudzu plant has a reputation. The fast-multiplying, invasive arrowroot was brought to North America in the 19th century and promoted to ease erosion, although the hot, muggy climate of the Southern U.S. proved too accommodating. For decades, kudzu has spread at a rapid speed, swallowing up roadsides, infrastructure, and really anything in its path. Its seemingly insatiable growth has vaulted the perennial plant to mythic status in Southern ecology, conservation, and culture. As a child in Birmingham, Joyce Lin was accustomed to the vine, although as an adult, she’s found that it’s difficult to disentangle kudzu’s reputation and tangible influence....

What have I been working on today?" Dustin Yellin considers over a recent phone call… "I wouldn't even know where to start." Read the full article on the artist by clicking above.
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Laurence des Cars resigned from her post as the president and director of the Louvre Museum today, February 24, after months of scrutiny following the infamous jewel heist last October.“Through both hardship and success, directing the Louvre has been the honor of my professional life,” des Cars stated in her resignation notice to the museum's staff. “I have devoted all my energy and determination to it. Not a single minute of my time has been wasted in service to the Louvre.”Des Cars, who was appointed in 2021 and became the first woman to steer the Louvre, underscored in the announcement that she had repeatedly warned of the museum's outdated infrastructure throughout her tenure. She stated...

Manhattan prosecutors have dropped their case against protest photographer Alexa Wilkinson, who was arrested and charged with a felony hate crime after documenting a protest at the New York Times headquarters last summer.Terra Brockman, Wilkinson’s attorney at the Legal Aid Society, told Hyperallergic that the charge was dropped yesterday, February 24, because there was “insufficient evidence to prove the allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.” Wilkinson, who uses gender neutral pronouns, was charged in September, months after they photographed a group dousing the New York Times in red paint in protest of the paper’s Gaza coverage last July. In an email, Wilkinson told Hyperallergic the "egregious...

Once upon a time, Los Angeles hosted just two main art fairs to contend with (RIP ALAC). But this year, there are eight fairs to navigate — or more, depending on how you define them. These range from the behemoth Frieze LA at the Santa Monica Airport to the suite-hopping hotel fair Felix in Hollywood and the more collegial atmosphere of Post-Fair. Add to these the artist-centered fairs Butter, dedicated to showcasing Black artists, and the Other Art Fair; Enzo, bringing nine galleries from New York; the new photo fair Show LA; and the Dark Arts Fair, which adds a touch of Renaissance Faire theatricality, and there’s truly something for everyone. There are a slew of other art happenings and exhibitions in...

The organizers of the Liverpool Biennial have named Aimee Harrison and Lucía Sanromán as cocurators of the event’s fourteenth edition, to take place June 5–September 12, 2027. Though no theme has yet been announced, the biennial will be influenced by the experiences of youth in Liverpool and around the world. Harrison has served as the Liverpool Biennial’s curator of learning […]

Laurence des Cars today relinquished her role as director of the Louvre. Des Cars had led the Paris institution since 2021. She had tendered her resignation last year, shortly after the broad-daylight theft of $102 million worth of crown jewels from the museum, but President Emmanuel Macron, who had named her to the post, refused to accept it. […]

or our first-ever Booooooom Illustration Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Editorial, Personal, Product & Packaging, Advertising & Promotional, Student. Now it is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Editorial category, Hoi Chan.
Hoi Chan is an illustrator from Hong Kong, currently based in New Orleans. His winning illustration is an image he created for The New York Times, “The Beauty of a Silent Walk” (Art director: Sarah Williamson).
A huge thank you to Format for supporting our awards this year. Format is an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally...

At the Variety Arts Theater, video art rubs shoulders with early cinema

Considering Alex Hutton’s fascination with rollercoasters and monumental waterslides, he doesn’t actually ever climb aboard. “Heights and the sinking feeling during free-fall bother me too much to enjoy them,” he tells Colossal. In a way, that adds even further dimension to the enigmatic, unpeopled atmosphere of his meticulous oil paintings, which focus on rollercoasters, waterslides, and intricately contrived frameworks. Devoid of the cars that roll along the tracks, Hutton focuses exclusively on volume, line, and three-dimensional grids, also typically setting the undulating forms against blank or brushy backgrounds so that even their scale is disorienting. While we typically associate the rides with...

Zifan Sun was never formally taught how to make the images in the Held in Blur (2025) series. Instead, they arose from intuition and experimentation, as she turned an acrylic sheet into a handmade diffuser and filter. “I observed how light and botanical forms softened, merged, and dissolved,” Sun recalls. The resulting compositions – depicting fuzzy blooms, out-of-focus leaves and watery distortions – are a celebration of imperfection and what can happen when we trust the process. Readers might be reminded of Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi, whose similarly dreamlike, light-drenched images find beauty in brief moments of everyday life, or even German visual artist Gerhard Richter, for whom...

“A face tells a story of life,” says Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen. The Danish artist is known for layering, crimping, and twisting paper into lush bouquets at a scale so large that the blooms often cloak entire walls and fill rooms with vibrant color. While she’s spent 14 years carefully sculpting these botanical sculptures, Scott-Hansen has been simultaneously at work creating self-portraits through the same techniques. Sporting braided horns or framed with spiraling tendrils, almost like a lion’s mane, these expressive masks are in part diaristic as they capture a particular moment in life and translate feelings the artist might not otherwise express. “A bit like Giuseppe Arcimboldo, I combined...

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under conductor Stéphane Denève plays up the schtick in a concert performance of The Magic Flute – and obscures Mozart's magic in the process.

“Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.” These are the words of James Turrell, a pioneer of Light Art. The field emerged in the mid-20th century, with figures like Turrell, Larry Bell and Mary Corse and Robert Irwin driving the movement. The aim was to use light, rather than traditional mediums like paint on canvas, to affect the viewer’s state of consciousness and perception. Fast forward to today, and artists employ the latest technologies, like 3D projection mapping and multi-media technology to push the boundaries of what an art exhibition can look like – think teamLab in Japan or the intricate creations of Marshmallow Laser Feast. These five exhibitions, on...

Varcata la soglia che separa l’ambiente esterno di Piazza Duomo dagli spazi di Palazzo Reale, accessibile mediante un’ampia scalinata in pietra che eleva lo spettatore abbastanza da rendere irresistibile uno sguardo fugace dall’alto, ci si trova in un’ampia sala settecentesca immersa in una luce soffusa. Per accedervi bisogna superare un atrio lungo solo un paio di passi e attraversare una porticina socchiusa da una tenda azzurra, un breve passaggio che inevitabilmente ridefinisce le proprie dimensioni corporee non appena si fa esperienza delle enormi tele dipinte da Anselm Kiefer, disposte a formare uno stralcio di architettura che ricorda dei paraventi, o delle pareti che si piegano su sé...

The Louvre in Paris, which last October lost $102 million worth of crown jewels in a broad-daylight robbery, on Sunday gained a new work, if only temporarily. Activists hung a photo of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken after his release following a February 19 arrest, in one of the storied museum’s galleries, where it reportedly remained for fifteen minutes. Surrounded by […]

For the past year, Mary Maka has lived in Sri Lanka, where the tropical flora and fauna have inspired her to continue her vibrant Endless Forest series. In the artist’s characteristically smooth, cartoonish, vivid illustrations, creatures peer out from between giant leaves, cling to palm trees, and nap on long branches. She has also begun incorporating animated elements that enliven the scenes. “At the same time, living on the island has revealed the fragility of nature’s balance,” Maka tells Colossal. “The lush tropical landscape conceals the vulnerability of the ecosystem and the delicate relationship between humans and the natural world.” Through these observations, both beauty and fragility...

"Soprano Aleksandra Kurzak will sing the role of Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, replacing Sonya Yoncheva, who has withdrawn from the run due to family reasons," says the Met press office.

Joyce DiDonato makes the most of Kevin Puts's trite new Emily Dickinson monodrama.

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In che modo è possibile rappresentare concretamente il suono? La sua inafferrabilità è così profonda e invalicabile come sembra? Le opere di Jacopo Mazzonelli (Trento, 1983) sono sicuramente molto pertinenti a questo ambito di indagine. Il suono, in mostra presso il Museo Lercaro a Bologna, è rappresentato con Persistence sotto una luce concreta e concettuale allo stesso tempo, creando una sintesi evocativa che interagisce attivamente con lo spettatore.
Jacopo Mazzonelli, “Persistence”, 2026, installation view, ph Marco Parollo, courtesy Galleria G7
Entrando nello spazio espositivo è possibile notare diverse canne di organo ribaltate e appese dalla più piccola alla più grande all’interno della...

Con Niji hajimete arawaru: Appare il primo arcobaleno, lo spazio IE propone un confronto che si sottrae all’idea di dialogo come semplice accostamento. La mostra di Michelangelo Consani e Giovanni Ozzola si costruisce piuttosto come un campo di prossimità instabile, fatto di risonanze e disallineamenti, in cui le opere sembrano misurarsi con un tempo lento, quasi sospeso. L’immagine evocata dal calendario tradizionale giapponese – l’apparizione del primo arcobaleno – non allude a un evento spettacolare, ma a una soglia: un cambiamento minimo, percettibile solo a chi è disposto a sostare.
Michelangelo Consani / Giovanni Ozzola, “Niji hajimete arawaru: Appare il primo arcobaleno”, installation...

Nel cuore storico di Bologna, alla Galleria de’ Foscherari, la mostra Continental, personale di Eva Marisaldi, realizzata in collaborazione con Enrico Serotti e curata da Leonardo Regano, si presenta come un progetto che dichiara fin dall’inizio di non volersi concentrare sullo spazio territoriale o sui confini geografici europei e asiatici, ma piuttosto rivolge la sua attenzione «alla politica, alla storia e all’identità» di quella determinata area geografica. In questo senso, Marisaldi sembra muoversi lungo una traiettoria che richiama il pensiero di autori come Edward Said[1] o Homi Bhabha[2], per i quali i confini non sono linee precise che separano in modo netto, ma spazi di incontro.
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