CENTRAL and Maxime Delvaux transform Logroño’s square
 
In Plaza del Mercado, Logroño, Spain, directly in front of the Co-Cathedral of Santa María de la Redonda, CENTRAL and photographer Maxime Delvaux present Architecture for Ritual, one of the temporary installations created specially for Concéntrico Festival 2026.
A large dune of sand and a colorful timber mast compose the project, which introduces a temporary beach-like landscape to the city center, encouraging residents and visitors to occupy and interact with the square in unexpected ways. Developed through the duo’s investigation into Logroño’s architecture, the installation is enclosed by a low perimeter wall that references the traces of...

Lilla Tabasso captures nature’s fleeting moments in glass
 
At first glance, Lilla Tabasso’s installation at Fondazione Dries Van Noten’s inaugural exhibition in Venice appears to be a living garden. Wildflowers emerge from clumps of earth, stems bend under their own weight, and tangled roots spread through the soil as though freshly unearthed. Only after a closer look does the illusion break, and the visitors realize that nothing is alive. Every petal, leaf, stem, and root has been painstakingly sculpted from Murano glass.
 
The Milan-based artist’s works are currently on view as part of The Only True Protest Is Beauty, the foundation’s opening exhibition at Palazzo Pisani Moretta. Among more than...

Meeting a politician who strikes you as sincere and authentic is as rare an occurrence as a New York Knicks championship or a peace deal between the US and Iran. But I had this uncommon experience last week when I met New York State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, an artist and union organizer who's running for Congress. Valdez is as progressive as they come, advocating for Medicare for all, universal rent control, taxing the rich, abolishing ICE, and freedom for Palestinians. She moved to the city in 2015 to become an artist and lived through the ordeal of fulfilling that dream, working jobs at Taco Bell, Trader Joe’s, and Pizza Hut. If she wins this Democratic primary on June 23, she would be making...

Henry, artist Nancy Shaver’s collectibles store in Hudson, New York, is closing after 30 years. Its demise marks the end not only of a beloved retail enterprise, but of a singular, long-running art project. As a shop, Henry is an ever-changing compendium of objects, generally showing the effects of time and use, selected and arranged with purpose. As an artist, Shaver is now perhaps best known for her wall sculptures built up from fabric-covered wooden blocks (“Blockers”), containers filled with objects (“Boxes”) and fabric-covered panels (“Spacers”). Of importance in both Shaver’s art making and her retail activities is how things look together, how they speak to one another, and how their...

IDEAS PARA DESPUÉS SPECULATIVE exhibition EXPLORES FUTURE CITIES
 
Ideas Para Después (IPD) is a design laboratory led by Héctor Montes Nicolás that combines critical design, democratic design, and foresight methodologies to investigate possible social, technological, and environmental futures. Presented as an exhibition, the project brings together more than 20 proposals developed by emerging designers and students, examining how design can be used to explore long-term challenges affecting contemporary cities.
 
Following more than a year of research, workshops, and collaborative development, the exhibition presents a series of speculative projects that consider topics including climate change, urban...

Durante i giorni della Biennale, Venezia continua a funzionare come un sistema poroso, dove ogni intervento si innesta su stratificazioni già presenti senza mai cancellarle del tutto. In questo contesto, la Cappella di Santa Maria della Pietà accoglie Vessels of Other Worlds di Wallace Chan come una deviazione silenziosa rispetto al flusso espositivo diffuso in città. Non si tratta di un’occupazione dello spazio, ma di una sua lenta modulazione, in cui la materia sembra reagire più che dichiararsi. L’impatto visivo, per chi entra nell’edificio progettato da Giorgio Massari, è un’alterazione improvvisa della luce: la pietra e i marmi storici della chiesa settecentesca entrano in contrasto con la...

Freedom Ship proposes floating city concept for global cruising
 
Freedom Cruise Line International, Inc. unveils Freedom Ship, a floating city concept designed as a global cruising vessel and urban-scale marine environment.
 
The project explores modern urban design and city-making, considering how place, identity, and functionality contribute to the structure of cities. Freedom Ship applies these principles within a maritime context, proposing a mobile city that operates as a continuous global route. The concept positions the vessel as a system combining architectural planning, spatial organization, and long-distance mobility.
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Freedom Ship develops a structured living...

Studio C11 designs Decathlon Zagreb office
 
The Decathlon Zagreb office, designed by Studio C11 and completed in 2019, is organized as a series of spatial interventions within an existing workplace environment. The design applies the visual and spatial language of sport to the office layout, using a system of meeting pods as defined functional units.
 
Each pod is associated with a specific sporting discipline, including basketball, football, and cycling. These references are translated into architectural elements through variations in material selection, spatial geometry, and atmospheric conditions, rather than decorative application.
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You’ve seen Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son.” You can picture Frida Kahlo’s family tree. There exists a litany of Dutch masters’ renditions of domestic scenes, children crouching at the ankles of adults. What about depictions of dads today? Fatherhood endures as rich subject matter, and there are a whole host of contemporary artists playing with it, questioning it, turning it over lovingly in their hands.On the occasion of Father’s Day, Hyperallergic has rounded up 10 artists making work that involves dads of all kinds: immigrant dads, absent dads, flawed dads, fellow artist dads, adopted father figures — or an imagined vision of what future fatherhood could be.Arleene Correa ValenciaIn 1996,...

Calligraphy is an ancient art with roots across the globe, dating back to early Chinese dynasties and Greek civilization, all through the Italian Renaissance. But one glance at a work by San Francisco-based artist Hunter Saxony III, and your understanding of calligraphy will be turned on its head. In an approach that is varied, yet […]
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As the United States approaches the dubious milestone of 250 years, we look to art as an exemplar for independence of expression. This summer, artistic freedom reigns in Upstate New York. At the Hudson River Museum, photographs of Black cowboys and cowgirls by Ron Tarver offer poignant visions of American power. The inaugural Upstate Photography Biennial at the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) is an exciting group exhibition that highlights regional talent, while a solo show of photos by Linda McCartney takes center stage at Fenimore Art Museum. Wassaic Project presents an incredible summer exhibition — my favorite this season — installed throughout seven floors, and Jack Shainman Gallery’s...

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

Georgia O’Keeffe, “Pedernal” (1945), pastel on paper (image courtesy the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum)Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light, a new documentary directed by Paul Wagner, begins by asserting that the American artist remains largely unknown in Europe.This seems unlikely, and in any case incidental to the story. Anyone who has opened an art history textbook can recognize one of the most important painters of the 20th century. After this initial hiccup, the film launches into clichéd descriptors from a cast of authorities: O’Keeffe was driven, passionate, fearless, committed, astounding. Thankfully, the documentary soon finds its rhythm, unspooling in a slow, patient manner that honors...

For most of the last century, watercolour was treated as the polite cousin of the art world. Oil had the... Read More

Métis artist Rosalie Favell (all photos by and courtesy the artist)This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.Rosalie Favell knows who she is, but she wasn’t always so sure of it. Living and working in Ottawa, Favell is a lesbian Métis artist who both questioned her identity and found the answers through her family and personal archives. Through autobiographical photography, personal text, and digital collage, Favell extrapolates truths of her ancestry and sexuality that were hiding in plain sight, and inserts herself where she wants to be — where she knows she belongs. A traveling retrospective celebrating 40...

Wang Yizhou (b. 1968, Jiangsu, China) currently lives and works in Shanghai. For more than three decades, he has remained... Read More

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Berlin Art Week marks its 15th anniversary with more than 300 events, major exhibitions and citywide programming

In 2022, the artist created a massive celebration of Black and queer culture at New York’s historic Park Avenue Armory

La Coopérative-Musée Cérès Franco is reopening to show its eclectic collection after a major renovation

The artist chronicled Amsterdam life in the 1970s

ARoS Aarhus has unveiled As Seen Below, James Turrell's largest Skyspace within a museum and the 100th Skyspace created during the artist's career.

MK Gallery explores the rarely seen colour photography of Jacques Henri Lartigue in a major exhibition featuring more than 150 works

Leyla Gencer had a long European career but never sang at the Met.

Documents, photographs, drawings, paintings—and even a sketch of the artist on his deathbed

The sprawling new campus on Chicago's south side includes a rousing museum and commissions by Mark Bradford, Maya Lin, Richard Hunt, Martin Puryear and many more

Nello spazio del foglio i segni tracciati da Kazuko Miyamoto si muovono liberi. Gli ideogrammi animano la superficie della pagina in una raffinata sequenza di passi e movimenti, alla stregua di una danza, come i tocchi di inchiostro e colore sono coinvolti in un moto perpetuo di aggregazione e disgregazione. Sulla carta non esiste possibilità di correzione e ripensamento, e ciò non per puntigliosa ed esteriore regola di gioco, ma perché la scrittura rappresenta il diagramma continuo d’un fluire a cui sono ignote le soste.[1]
Kazuko Miyamoto, “Dancing around the entrance to the cellar”, exhibition view, courtesy Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Roma
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Archaeologists from Wessex Research, a British archaeological firm, have found a structure that may have been a prototype for Stonehenge. The company announced the find just days before June 21, when thousands of visitors will converge on the ancient stone circle to celebrate the summer solstice. The Wessex Research team made the discovery while conducting required excavations in Bulford, three miles from Stonehenge, ahead of the British Ministry of Defense’s construction of new housing. At the heart of the find were two postholes, 400 feet apart, aligned so the now-vanished poles would point directly to the rising sun at summer solstice and the setting sun at winter solstice—exactly as Stonehenge’s...

New York–based artist Teresita Fernández has been revealed as the first artist in a new commissions program for the reopening of the Menil Collection’s Fresco Building in late 2027. The historic structure, which has been closed since 2018, will be repurposed for semi-permanent, site-specific commissions. The reopening will coincide with the fortieth anniversary of inauguration […]

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, a museum-without-walls whose stated mission is to center women’s history on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., has launched a new augmented reality project called “Unhidden Heroines.” Starting on June 18, anyone with a smartphone (or a computer) will be able to conjure the presence of five women who helped shape the country over the past 250 years and learn about their history and influence. The five virtual monuments will join those honoring iconic (male) figures from American history on the Mall, from Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Jefferson to Martin Luther King, Jr. They are dedicated to Julia Ward Howe (poet who wrote “The Battle Hymn of the...

A New York Supreme Court judge on June 16 gave billionaire dealer David Nahmad thirty days to return Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man with a Cane to the family of Jewish antiques dealer Oscar Stettiner, who left it in his Paris shop as he fled the Nazis during World War II. The ruling is the latest twist in a […]

In the lead up to the formal opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, former US president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama revealed their first dual portrait on June 15. The portrait was created by Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who currently resides in Los Angeles.  Titled The Obamas: Springing Forth, […]

A video work by Helen Cammock that has been on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London for nine months has recently sparked controversy for its claim about former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s role in the Bengal famine of 1943. In the 40-minute video, titled Persistence (2025), Cammock, who won the Turner Prize in 2019, mentions Oliver Cromwell’s conquest of Ireland, which included a famine. In her narration, according to the Guardian, she says, Cromwell “starved people, en masse, a little like the wilful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill.” The controversy was first stirred up in the conservative British newspaper the Telegraph earlier this week, when arts...

All arts festivals abound in sights and sounds, but the Reykjavík Arts Festival invested in a sense seldom given its due: smell. And not just any smell but, suggestively, the scent of “freshly cut grass resting by a fence post, chervil spilling across a sun-warmed sidewalk, a lawnmower shredding dandelions and sorrel, the echo of a distant party, blackcurrants dropping one by one from bare branches.” Those are some of the poetic notes appended to a special scent created for the Reykjavík Arts Festival by Fischersund, a family enterprise led by Jónsi, the lead singer of the Icelandic rock band Sigur Rós, and his artist sisters Lilja, Ingibjörg, and Sigurrós Birgisdóttir. The scent emanated from an...

The Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel will not be awarded in 2026, the Art Newspaper reports. Established in 1999, the SFr30,000 (roughly $37,000) honor had been presented annually to two artists whose work appeared in the fair’s Statements section, devoted to emerging artists. The prize was historically administered by Swiss insurer Baloise Group, which […]

Think for a second about what comes to mind when you hear “soda.” Perhaps fizzy, saccharine, and bright? Then consider the connotations of the word “sour.” Maybe it evokes the zing of a lemon, tanginess, or something sharper. This is the relationship that forms the basis of Sour Soda Studio, a project built upon two decades of illustration experience with a playful and slightly unsettling view of some of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene. “It didn’t come from a change of direction, or from a manifesto,” says the artist, who prefers to remain unnamed. “It came from something simpler: the need to say different things with a different voice.” In these vibrant, often absurd works with...

The Trellis Art Fund has named the dozen artists making up its 2026 Milestone Grant cohort. Each will receive an unrestricted grant of $100,000, disbursed in two installments over a two-year period. Among this year’s recipients are sculptor and installation artists Kelly Akashi; performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash, who is representing Japan at this year’s Venice Biennale; conceptual […]

Raised in a wealthy, well-connected family in England, the young Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) glommed onto stories her mother and grandmother told of Celtic folk tales about mythical beings in Ireland. Her imagination ran rampant as a child, and a rebellious spirit earned her expulsion from more than one convent school for antics like writing backwards and even trying to levitate. Later, her father insisted she be presented to the court of King George V at a debutante ball and was expected to “marry well.” Art and fantasy continued to call to Carrington, though, and not to be sallied by social convention, she attended the Chelsea School of Art, discovered Surrealism at the 1936 International Surrealist...

After success at the Met as Turandot and before a historic Medea, soprano Anna Pirozzi talks to Harry Rose about her voice, her repertoire, and where her "second explosion of career" is taking her.

Video Artists International brings us back to a time when opera was carried over the airwaves by great voices—and a tire company.

La Galleria de’ Foscherari di Bologna ha inaugurato Merci Satie, una personale dedicata al rapporto tra Aldo Mondino e la musica, costruita attorno alla figura di Erik Satie. Più che un semplice omaggio, il percorso espositivo mette in scena una domanda da sempre centrale nella ricerca dell’artista: come può la pittura trattenere ciò che per natura scorre, come il suono, il ritmo, il movimento di un corpo? Satie, figura fondamentale della musica tra Otto e Novecento, diventa per Mondino non soltanto un riferimento culturale, ma quasi un metodo. Nella sua musica, infatti, convivono leggerezza, ironia, malinconia e sospensione; gli stessi elementi che Mondino traduce in immagini attraverso la...

One of the most enduring traditions in the U.S. is undoubtedly the state fair. The very first was held in Syracuse, New York, in 1841, and throughout the mid-19th century, states launched their own unique takes. Some of the largest and busiest, such as those in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, have been running just about as long as the states have existed. And it’s no coincidence that some of the most well known and beloved events, which usually take place in the late summer or early autumn, represent the nation’s agricultural heartlands. The exhibition State Fairs: Growing American Craft at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery celebrates the unique crafts and customs of these annual...

Bristol-based artist Diana Beltrán Herrera continues to construct elaborate sculptures of flora and fauna in vibrant paper. Over the last few years, Herrera’s work has grown in both scale and subject matter as she incorporates new materials such as paperboard, thread, and cardboard, which have allowed her work to evolve beyond previous forms. The artist’s latest explorations of nature motifs include flower structures, leaf patterns, and most recently, coral formations. Uniquely, coral reefs exhibit fractal and hyperbolic geometry, making them a particularly fascinating subject for sculptural reproduction. Utilizing thread as a structural tool has been especially integral for Herrera’s explorations of...

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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s concert Rigoletto hits some vocal turbulence

A full century after her heyday, Argentine soprano Hina Spani still moves us thanks to her vivid recordings and the savants who have cherished and shared them.

Tornare sui propri passi spesso significa percorrere strade già attraversate, ma con degli occhi del tutto nuovi e con la mente sgombra, per far spazio a nuovi percorsi e nuove figure. Si è rincuorati dalla possibilità di riconoscere i propri riferimenti e, allo stesso tempo, si è spinti a esercitare l’osservazione del nuovo. Questo esercizio di osservazione e di scoperta accade a me quando osservo le tele di Luca Ceccherini (Arezzo, 1993) e accade all’artista quando, grazie al suo ingegno creativo, si appresta a proseguire il suo coerente e solido percorso pittorico, dando una forma e un luogo, ancora e ancora, ai giullari, menestrelli, acrobati, campagnoli e contrabbandieri che da sempre popolano le...

Designer Taekhan Yun’s parents run an English school in Cambodia. One day, during a visit, he noticed how the kids were constantly shifting in their chairs, trying to get comfortable. “It made me realize how naturally furniture and spaces are designed around adult standards, while children are often expected to adapt and conform to those environments,” he tells Colossal. That’s when the idea was born to not only create functional pieces that would better suit the students’ needs but to invite them to create their own. Yun has always been interested in participatory creative projects, especially because of “the unexpected outcomes that emerge when people from different backgrounds come together to...

In the popular imagination, artists are often thought to create for the sake of creating, unfettered by the demands of the market-driven world outside their studios. Though many well-known artists have muddled the boundaries between art and commerce (Jeff Koons comes to mind), the two realms have a contentious relationship. Business savvy artists are often […]
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La ricerca di Senzeni Marasela (Thokoza, Sudafrica, 1977) riflette sulla colonizzazione britannica del Sudafrica e poi ci parla dell’apartheid, ponendo l’accento sulla vita delle donne nere e sul lavoro nelle miniere dell’area intorno a Johannesburg utilizzando materiali tessili e il ricamo. Nella mostra In Minor Keys alla 61. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte a cura di Koyo Kouoh, l’artista presenta The Conversation (2018) e una serie sugli incidenti avvenuti nelle miniere tra il 1960 e il 2024: Coalbrook 435, 1960 (2025), Kinross 177, 1986 (2025), Marikana 34, 2012 (2025), Stilfontein 77, 2024 (2025), Val Reefs 104, 1995 (2025), Welkom 30, 2023 (2025), Comet (2025). Marasela ha un alter ego...

All images courtesy of the artist and GNYP gallery In Aistė Stancikaitė’s painting “Some Time We Walk Together,” two gloved hands are joined by a set of finger cuffs. The connected, silver rings resemble wedding bands. As for the hands, whether they belong to one or two people is up to the viewer to decide. […]
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By Victoria Thomas When John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966, he had no idea who she was. More remarkably, Yoko was equally unaware of John. This neutral introduction seems impossible for us today, especially for children of the 1960s. But defying mere nostalgia, The Broad meets this challenge with Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Ono's first LA museum show, which offers a full season of multi-arts media programming, including the installation of seven digital antiwar billboards across Los Angeles....

Interior Gallery Photos by and ©Tim Hursley, courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum  As a world-class institution showcasing one of the most impressive collections of American art spanning five centuries, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has firmly placed Bentonville, Arkansas on the global cultural map. And, except for a few major holidays, the museum […]
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By A. Laura Brody What is the language of bat senses and beaver teethmarks? How does water communicate to soil and roots, and how do we translate the paths left by burrowing insects or the markings of trees? These are questions asked by the Journal of Therolinguistics exhibition at Descanso Gardens' Boddy House, on view now until July 5, 2026. Oscar Salguero has curated a fascinating exploration of the expressive worlds of plants and animals brought to life by international artists Aistė...

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

By Tm Gratkowski With intent and the will to do it her own way, there is a gallery in the most unlikely of places, off the 210 freeway on Lincoln Avenue in Pasadena. Imagine walking into the parking lot of an old lumber yard, stumbling down a paved area past old materials, equipment, and a small cluster of shed-like buildings. Nothing new, no signs, just your average ubiquitous Southern California lot. As you wander in you notice a little welcoming front porch and tucked away in the corner is...

By Tatou Dede T: How did you end up here, being an artist today? A: I think it depends on how you define the term artist. I was always in theatre since, maybe, kindergarten. When I was a child I used to produce and direct sort of nonsensical plays for my schools, wherever I was, in Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley. So every year I produced a very bizarre play that, for some reason, every school had me put on. And then I studied with the Berkeley Rep theater. After that I went to UCLA and...