Seven years after an undercover sting led police to a house packed with stolen art in the hills above Nice, the case has returned to court, with ten defendants now on trial over a cache that included several works by Pablo Picasso. The trial, which opened earlier this month in Nice, revisits a 2017 judicial police operation that recovered more than 20 stolen artworks, including at least seven works by Picasso, following a tip that major pieces were being quietly offered for sale on the Côte d’Azur. According to reporting by Nice-Matin, investigators from the Police Judiciaire went undercover, posing as a Swiss buyer and his assistant, after receiving intelligence from Belgium that stolen artworks...

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As part of its upcoming spring program, the Barbican in London will stage a major commission by artist Delcy Morelos, her first in the United Kingdom. For the commission, on view May 15 to July 31, Morelos will construct her most ambitious sculptural installation to date. Measuring around 78 feet in circumference, the new work, to be sited in the Barbican’s outdoor sculpture courtyard, will take the form of an oval-shaped pavilion made of soil, clay, spices, and plant materials. Morelos’s commission is the third by the Barbican to be staged in its public areas and the first to be done in its Sculpture Court. “Our public realm commissions invite artists to respond to the Barbican’s iconic brutalist...

The foundations of a building complex from the 5th–6th century CE were recently uncovered at Al-Qarya bi-Al-Duweir, an archaeological site in Sohag, a city along the Nile River in central Egypt. The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities posted about the discovery on January 8 on X, noting that the mission was overseen by the Supreme Council of Antiquities. According to Ahram Online, Sherif Fathy, minister of tourism and antiquities, observed that the Byzantine-era residential complex “shed[s] new light on early Christian monastic life in Upper Egypt.” Fathy also hopes that this discovery will draw attention from both tourists and potential researchers to Al-Qarya bi-Al-Duweir, which is not as well known as...

South Africa has scrapped a performance mourning victims of Israel's war on Gaza that was selected for the country's 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion. In a statement to Hyperallergic, a spokesperson for the nation's Department of Sport, Arts and Culture said the pavilion “should not be used to amplify similarly divisive global disputes that do not center South Africa’s own story,” adding: “We need to use our platforms to sell our country to the world.”Artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo's proposal for the South African presentation, titled Elegy after Goliath's decade-long vocal performance series, had been chosen for the Biennale by an independent committee in...

By marrying the realistic with the fantastical and uncanny, Stephanie Temma Hier conjures tension: there’s a calf-hair necktie that morphs into a table fan, popcorn surrounding pink ballet shoes, and a rapt snake framed by orange igneous rocks. The Brooklyn-based artist is formally trained as a painter and self-taught as a ceramicist, and she fuses the two modes of working into a complementary practice. Hier begins by sculpting a wide range of forms, and after several rounds of firing with both handmade and commercially available glazes, she adds a painting. The pairings arise intuitively, sometimes through free association, trial and error, or by homing in on a color. Earlier works include a decadent,...

According to the White House, two international groups working on cultural heritage preservation and arts policy are “contrary to the interests of the United States” and “waste taxpayer dollars.”The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) are among 66 organizations or treaties from which President Trump withdrew in a memorandum on Wednesday, January 7.Headquartered in Australia, the IFACCA collaborates with government arts agencies and conducts research on issues that impact cultural policy decisions, such as arts funding and cultural labor. The group is perhaps...

The miniseries, nominated in three categories, prominently features works by Norman Lewis as well as two contemporary artists

ELLENVILLE, New York — The word “GUILLOTINE” was drawn in charcoal capital letters on the wall of artist Michael Berryhill’s basement studio when I visited him in November, shortly after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City. Berryhill was fired up about the state of the country but optimistic. His home is a museum piece of the 1950s, with plywood floors, ranch-style corner windows, and pink-tiled and wallpapered bathrooms. But the way he and his wife, musician Eleanor Friedberger, use it feels like a form of resistance against that period of conformity: In addition to the basement studio, there is a music studio and small performance space. The upstairs living room, where we talk over a...

PHILADELPHIA — If you’ve ever tried to puzzle out what’s happening in Henri Rousseau’s haunting “Sleeping Gypsy” (1897) at the Museum of Modern Art, then you’re already familiar with the artist’s extraordinary ability to tantalize viewers. That painting of a lion and a slumbering woman is on view in Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets at the Barnes Foundation, now in the company of nearly 60 more works — many equally mesmerizing. Self-taught, self-confident, and inscrutable, Henri Rousseau was "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma," to crib Winston Churchill’s famous characterization of Russia. He began painting before retiring as a toll collector for the city of Paris in 1893....

It’s revealing that the title of Sue Roe’s newest book, Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life, names not the women it is ostensibly about, but the one man whose life they supposedly “shaped.” Similarly, while its cover features a fabulous Robert Doisneau photograph of one of these six women, artist Françoise Gilot, behind her lurks Pablo Picasso, unmistakable in his trademark Breton striped shirt, lounging on a daybed. Her eyes look up in his direction and so ours follow. While she is center stage, he is the one who claims our gaze. And speaking of claiming, Gilot wears a leafy crown in Doisneau’s photo, like many a muse in art before her, and hanging from a close-fitting black...

The Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina, is unveiling newly reconfigured collection galleries to cap its 75th anniversary and culminate a yearlong renovation. While the institution is currently hosting “Keith Haring: Radiant Vision”—a traveling exhibition that previously visited the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, the Long Beach Museum of Art in California, and venues in Italy, Israel, and elsewhere—the museum will reopen its collection galleries following a gala on January 16, presenting a newly conceived display across 20 galleries. “Over the past 75 years, the CMA collection has grown in exciting and dynamic ways,” senior curator Michael Neumeister said in a press release. “We...

Belgian art dealer Klaas Muller has identified a new study of a bearded man’s head by Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, according to a lengthy report in the Dutch daily newspaper De Standaard. Muller bought the work, an oil on paper laid on panel that is now titled Bearded old man, looking down to his left (ca. 1609), at an auction three years ago from “lesser-known auction house in northern Europe,” declining to name it for fear of increased competition, he told the Guardian. The auction house had listed it as an unknown artist from the “Flemish school” and without a date. As soon as Muller saw it on the auction house’s website, he was immediately taken by it and began doing more research. “I...

In 1666, the marriage of Emperor Leopold I and Infanta Margarita Teresa of Spain solidified a political alliance between the Austrian and Spanish sides of the Habsburg family. They were also both uncle and niece and first cousins, such was the intense insularity of royal marriages intended to gain or maintain power across Europe. The union was arranged while Margarita Teresa was very young—she was only around 15 when they married—and during the years leading up to the wedding, court painter Diego Velázquez created numerous portraits of her, which were sent to Leopold I in the form of tokens or updates documenting the imperial bride’s development into a young woman. “Them, after Hodges, Kruseman,...

blackwattle bay’s first completed project
 
Set to open at last on January 19th, 2026, the 3XN Architects-designed Sydney Fish Market occupies a prominent stretch of Blackwattle Bay on the Australian city’s inner harbor. Planned in collaboration with BVN and Aspect Studios, and delivered by Multiplex, the project introduces a purpose-built facility that brings wholesale operations, public market areas, and waterfront access into a single system.
 
The new building, with its floating roof canopy, is located roughly one mile southwest of the central business district and replaces a former market structure with a volume oriented toward the harbor edge. The site sits within the wider renewal of Blackwattle...

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The event's 14th edition is co-led by two dealers with spaces far from the gallery hub neighbourhoods of Colaba and Fort

Artists Lana Chornohorska and Yurii Kostyshyn and philosophy student Timofey Anufriev have all died in recent weeks

Entriamo in conversazione con l’artista Giorgia Mascitti (San Benedetto del Tronto, 1995) e la curatrice Miriam di Francesco (Atri, 1988) in occasione della mostra personale Davanti a un gran bosco a THEPÒSITO Art Space, concepita in relazione con il Festival “Rigenerarsi” a Narni. L’artista e la curatrice dialogano sulle opere in mostra evocandone la dimensione fiabesca, onirica e immaginativa, quali metafore del contemporaneo.
Giorgia Mascitti, “Davanti a un gran bosco”, curated by Miriam di Francesco installation view, ph. Aldo Destino, courtesy the artist and THEPÒSITO Art Space
Sara Buoso: Vorreste parlarci del vostro background e della natura del vostro rapporto in relazione alla mostra...

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Tobias Kratzer digs beneath the surface of Strauss's Intermezzo in an excellent new DVD from Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Meet five photographers longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize who are redefining how we see the landscape. These artists move beyond traditional depictions of place, experimenting with time, perception and materiality to transform the natural world into something immersive and unexpected. From long-exposure forests that blur movement and stillness, to layered scenes that collapse multiple viewpoints into a single frame, their works challenge the boundaries between reality and imagination. They offer fresh perspectives on landscape photography, reflecting innovation and engagement with the environment. Gjert Rognli The force of nature is at the heart of Gjert Rognli’s artistic practice. He works across...

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hill house by habitat architects emerges from the terrain
 
Designed by Habitat Architects, the Solan Hill House is a private residence embedded into a sloping site in Himachal Pradesh, conceived as an architecture that grows out of its terrain rather than resting on it. Completed as a response to complex gradients, access conditions, and visual exposure, the project uses the landscape itself as a generator of form, structure, and spatial sequence. By organizing living spaces across stepped levels that follow the natural contours, the house minimizes excavation while maximizing views, privacy, and environmental performance. The design prioritizes long-term adaptability, material intelligence, and a quiet...

retractable steering wheel designed for autonomous vehicles
 
Autoliv and Tensor introduce a retractable steering wheel designed for autonomous vehicles, fully disappearing when the car drives itself. Unveiled at CES 2026, the design responds to automated riding, especially Level 4 driving, where the vehicle can manage all driving tasks within certain conditions without human input. The retractable steering wheel is co-developed with Tensor’s Robocar autonomous driving system. When the vehicle switches into Level 4 autonomous mode, the steering wheel retracts, clearing the driver’s area. This creates more space in the cabin and allows the front seat area to function more like a living or working space...

I still don't think Sunset Boulevard is a top-tier musical but it was by far the most memorable vocal performance I saw in 2025.

onion translates seaside atmosphere into hotel’s built form
 
The Standard Pattaya Na Jomtien by Onion is a hospitality project shaped by the environmental and urban conditions of Pattaya, Thailand, a coastal city defined by light, shadow, movement, and beachside activity. These elements inform both the architectural language and the spatial organization of the hotel, translating the atmosphere of the seaside context into built form.
 
The overall layout is organized around four courtyards, each serving a distinct programmatic and experiential role. Through its courtyard-based layout, material articulation, and response to light and shadow, the project establishes a clear relationship between...

a self-built production model for wooden architecture in japan
 
Studio Cochi Architects establishes its own woodworking studio in Gushichan, rural Okinawa, Japan. The compound combines the firm’s office and a production facility for wooden sashes and fixtures, elements they consider essential to the spatial and tactile quality of their buildings, yet increasingly difficult to source locally with consistent craftsmanship, precision, and timelines.
 
The compound sits about five minutes from the firm’s former home-office, Tamagusuku House, on a sloping plot surrounded by forest and farmland. The architects chose a steel-frame structure for its openness, speed, and economy, typical of industrial buildings....

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In 1955, New York’s MoMA opened The Family of Man, an ambitious exhibition which brought together hundreds of images by photographers around the world. It was organised by Edward Steichen, whose aim was to demonstrate “the gamut of life from birth to death” through pictures. The display toured internationally and was seen by more than 9 million visitors, and is now regarded as one of the most famous shows of all time. Perhaps most importantly, it positioned the idea of “family” as something bigger than our immediate, or biological, circles. The images showed how complex and wide-reaching the term can be – highlighting shared experiences across borders. Now, Brussels’ Hangar presents Family...

Kathleen Goncharov, who launched her career at Linda Goode’s pathbreaking New York gallery Just Above Midtown and went on to serve as US Commissioner for the Fiftieth Venice Biennale, died in her Boca Raton, Florida, home on December 31. She was seventy-three. Goncharov was widely esteemed for her staunch advocacy of such artists as El […]

The leaders of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) at a January 6 press conference publicly denounced the Flemish government’s scheme to dissolve it and move its collection to a museum in another city, contending that the plan is “flagrantly” illegal. As reported by Flemish news platform VRT, their pronouncement was based on […]

With a two-headed, dozen-eyed Mona Lisa, a disjointed Frida Kahlo exploding like tiny little pieces of glass, and a tiny Napoleon in Egypt sitting on a gargantuan, long-limbed horse, collage artist and illustrator Lola Dupre proves that there’s art to be done after art is… well… done. Click above to read the full article by Liana Aghajanian.
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The world’s largest island that isn’t its own continent, Greenland spans more than 836,000 square miles. As we’ve been reminded recently, the territory is part of the Realm of Denmark, although it has its own systems of local government. Greenland is home to only about 56,000 people, the vast majority of whom are Inuit and live on the southern part of the island that’s not covered in ice. The largest city, Nuuk, houses around one-third of the country’s population. And situated just south of the Arctic Circle, residents only see a few hours of sunlight during the day in mid-winter. Hunting and fishing have traditionally sustained a subsistence lifestyle for Greenlanders, and today, the latter...

Roughly one hundred Uffizi staffers staged a demonstration in the courtyard of the venerable Florence institution on January 4, protesting an effective layoff of the museum’s casual workers spurred by a change in service managers. Unfurling a large banner reading “Basta Vite Precarie” (“Enough with Precarious Life”), the protesters used flags and bright green flares […]

In an otherwise unassuming neighborhood in Beppu, Ōita Prefecture, Japan, a modest residence has undergone an unusual transformation. Thanks to Japanese art collective 目, the two-story private home has been hollowed out, in a sense, to create a literal cavern. 目 translates to “eye” and is pronounced “mé,” and the group comprises artist Haruka Kojin, director Kenji Minamigawa, and installer Hirofumi Masui. The trio’s focus revolves around conceiving works that encourage new ways of seeing the world as it constantly changes and evolves before us. Often playing with perception, pieces have included ocean swells that appear frozen in time and space and giant balloons of people’s faces that float...

Ahead of the return of Louise to the Opéra National de Lyon, Parterre Box features Elsa Dreisig in a much more famous French opera.

Thibaut Grevet is a French director and photographer who moves through the world with an eye tuned to the unseen. His images slip between reality and reverie, blending people, architecture, and landscape into quiet collisions of shape, shadow, and motion. What he captures often feels less like documentation and more like memory—soft, shifting, and charged with an otherworldly calm. Grevet works in moments that unfold on their own terms: unposed, unpolished, and beautifully transient. He gravitates toward what flickers at the edge of perception, revealing details that many overlook but that, in his hands, expand into entire worlds. His 2025–26 collaboration with New York City Ballet extends this dialogue...

Since its launch in 2015, the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards has become a leading biennial platform for emerging photographers in the UK. It has nurtured artists who have redefined contemporary photography and lens-based art, shaping how images influence our perception of the world. Past recipients such as Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Heather Agyepong, Joanne Coates, Joanna Piotrowska, Lúa Ribeira and Silvia Rosi and have expanded their practices from intimate exhibitions to international recognition, residencies and critical acclaim. The programme offers more than financial support, providing mentoring, guidance and touring exhibition opportunities that allow artists to develop ambitious projects at a pivotal stage in...

We exist in an extraordinary moment. The past decade has been shaped by the rapid expansion of social media, the emergence of artificial intelligence and a global pandemic that fundamentally altered how we understand connection, education, work and social life. Layered onto this are ongoing political and economic uncertainties, creating a world in near-constant flux. It is within this landscape that a new generation of artists has come of age, using the lens as both witness and compass. These emerging voices are being brought into focus across institutions and galleries worldwide. Their work navigates a shifting terrain in which identity, memory and place feel increasingly unstable, and perhaps always have...

«Vogliamo essere visibili, siamo esseri umani». Sono le sei parole, tradotte in italiano da un ragionamento in lingua inglese, che raccontano meglio di ogni altro concetto questa mostra. La Collezione Maramotti ospita un progetto site-specific dell’artista rom di passaporto polacco Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, già vista e apprezzata in Italia nel 2022 alla Biennale Arte di Venezia, nel padiglione nazionale della Polonia. Abbiamo definito site-specific il progetto perché nasce anche dal confronto dell’artista con la comunità sinti di Reggio Emilia. Si tratta di una comunità vasta che racchiude circa la metà dell’intera popolazione rom e sinti dell’intera Emilia-Romagna e che l’artista ha voluto...

Jana Euler’s paintings are crowded with symbolically charged motifs—sharks, sockets, slugs, dollar bills, bodily close-ups, and her own fantastical animal, the morecorn. Each stars as the protagonist in its own series of works, and puts us in touch with a different attitude toward reality. Her canvases may seem metaphorical, producing impressions of how it feels […]

A messy new I puritani at the Met is a historic and historical disappointment.

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Palestinian-Saudi artist Dana Awartani’s practice centres around one primary contrast: the act of creation and the experience of loss. Her multidisciplinary practice addresses the destruction of cultural heritage, reflecting upon the ravages of conflict within the Middle East. The artist’s latest exhibition, held at Towner Eastbourne until the end of the month, takes its name from an ongoing series. Standing by the Ruins traces the act of remembrance, healing and forgetting. At its heart is a major floor installation constructed in collaboration with adobe restoration craftsmen from Riyadh. The piece draws directly from the historic Hamam al-Sammara, one of Gaza’s oldest bathhouses, now believed to be...

Elina Garanča scaled the vocal and dramatic summits of the Judgement Duet and Scene in the May series of Aïda.

Ancora pochi giorni per visitare, negli spazi della galleria mondoromulo arte contemporanea a Castelvenere, la mostra di Alessandro Trapezio “Now I see you, now you see me” a cura di Francesco Creta. La mostra porta in esposizione due progetti del fotografo di origine spezzina mettendoli in relazione tra loro sulla questione dello sguardo. In “Closer”, omaggio alla serie di foto realizzate da Dino Pedriali a Pasolini, siamo noi a spiare la performer Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, mentre nei poster da riviste patinate della serie “Power, Corruption & Lies” ci troviamo assaliti dallo sguardo delle modelle fino a sentirci i loro occhi addosso. Lo sguardo e il dato voyeuristico sono il principio fondamentale su...

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has named the more than sixty-five artists set to participate in the third iteration of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale. Titled “In Interludes and Transitions (في الحِلّ والترحال),” the exhibition will open January 30 in the JAX District, an industrial site turned arts complex in the historic town of Diriyah, near […]

The 77th issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon. Click above to see previews!
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"I’m more interested in revealing the quiet violence of what we call ‘normal’ than in telling anyone what to feel. If a viewer finds their own discomfort in that—it’s a gift, not something I try to control.”
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I meccanismi di decodifica che scattano non appena il nostro sguardo si posa su un’immagine funzionano per automatismi percettivi sedimentati in secoli di educazione visiva: in virtù della loro istantanea attivazione, siamo in grado di riconoscere forme, attribuire profondità, distinguere piani, senza che questo processo richieda alcuno sforzo cosciente, come se la visione fosse un atto naturale e neutro anziché una costruzione culturale complessa e storicamente determinata. Turbare quest’illusione di immediatezza e minare alle radici l’incondizionata fiducia che riponiamo nelle nostre capacità percettive è il cardine della sperimentazione pittorica di Luca Moscariello, che nella personale Sublimi...

Il “Museo del Genio” (Istituto Storico e di Cultura dell’Arma del Genio) di Roma non poteva cogliere migliore occasione per riaprire le porte al grande pubblico. Fino al 15 febbraio 2026, infatti, ospita “Vivian Maier. The Exhibition”, mostra dedicata ad una delle più grandi “fotografe di strada” del secolo scorso. Il percorso espositivo è un viaggio itinerante fra New York e Chicago, i cui vivaci quartieri catturati da Maier sono i protagonisti indiscussi.
Vivian Maier, “Armenian woman fighting on East 86th Street”, New York, NY, September 1956. Gelatin silver print, 2012, 40×50 cm, © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof. Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY
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By Marina Claire The Middle Becomes Eclectic II is an LA-made small works salon – a large-scale exhibition within an intimate space – of forty Los Angeles area artists. The show’s title is a play on the iconic KCRW alternative radio program that began in LA in 1977. The small works in this exhibit span a wide range of media and styles, all made during the past year, by diverse artists at all career levels, guest curated by Camilla Taylor. The show is on view at The Middle Room Gallery in...

"I'm trying to create a portrait of a person without their face, which is really interesting to me," Laurie Lee Brom says. Instead, she allows the setting and actions to shed light on who this person is... Read the full article by clicking above.
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