Christof Loy’s production of Pablo Luna’s gender-bending Orientalist farce Benamor proves to be irresistible.

Ben Luke speaks to editor-in-chief, Americas Ben Sutton about the disputes that have arisen as the US marks its 250 years since the Declaration of Independence—and hears about the demise of Stephen Friedman’s Gallery. Plus, the story of a heart-shaped pendant tied to Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

We’re thrilled to invite you all to the Chicago premiere of Paint Me a Road Out of Here, the award-winning documentary from Aubin Pictures directed by Catherine Gund. Along with Intuit Art Museum and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at DePaul University, Colossal is co-hosting a screening of the film followed by a conversation between film participant Leah Faria and our editorial director Grace Ebert on March 25. This event is free to attend, but seating is limited. Featuring artists Faith Ringgold and Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Paint Me a Road Out of Here uncovers the whitewashed history of Ringgold’s masterpiece, “For the Women’s House,” following its 50-year journey from Rikers...

Iryna Prots, who created the imagery on Vladyslav Heraskevych’s helmet—which honours Ukraine’s war dead—says she feels the decision to disqualify him violates the Olympic spirit

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The Headlines ARTFUL DODGERS. The Louvre has had a rough season since the brazen daylight theft of France’s crown jewels from its gilded halls last October. Now, French police have arrested nine people in connection with an extensive network of fraudsters who sold fake tickets via guided groups to the Louvre and the Chateau de Versailles, reports Le Parisien. Two Louvre employees, along with independent guides, have been arrested for their suspected role in the “large-scale” scheme, which is estimated to have cost the Louvre some 10 million euros ($11.9 million). Louvre President Laurence des...

Sotheby’s will offer four major works from the Lewis Collection next month, spearheaded by a 1972 self-portrait by Francis Bacon, in what the auction house described as a markedly stronger market than a year ago. The group, which includes two portraits by Lucian Freud and a rare swimming pool scene by Leon Kossoff, will be unveiled in New York before headlining Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary evening sale in London on March 4. The house said the paintings are “one of the finest groups of School of London works ever brought to market.” Joe Lewis is a British businessman, investor, and art collector, and known as the longtime majority owner of London’s Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. His art...

Lana Launay brings antique doilies to light sculptures
 
Lana Launay’s Kinship series aims to preserve the antique doilies and ancestral lace-like textiles that have been passed down through generations using glowing light sculptures. At first glance, Kinship I and II illuminate with amorphous patterns, but up close, their surfaces resolve into lace. Doilies, stockings, and fragments of textile are stretched, wrapped, and held within stainless steel frameworks, then activated from within by LED light embedded in aluminum housings. The result is a series of industrial lighting pieces meeting inherited cloth.
 
The textiles themselves are not decorative afterthoughts. Each doily has been collected from...

It's impossible to imagine New York City without art, or contemporary art without New York City. This is where you come to see the best of the best, or to take part in making it. This country’s international standing is down in the gutter, thanks to Trump, but this city is still a living, rolling dream. Right now, we're waiting to see who's going to be Mayor Mamdani's pick for cultural affairs commissioner. It's an important role that determines where the city's budget priorities will lie and who'll get a seat at the table. Gonzalo Casals, who served as culture commissioner under Mayor de Blasio, and Mauricio Delfín, who co-directs the Culture & Arts Policy Institute...

BOS Arquitectes introduces Muro nursery school in Mallorca
 
BOS Arquitectes completes a 745-square-meter nursery school in Muro, Mallorca, between the town’s edge and open agricultural fields. Set on elevated ground, the building overlooks familiar landmarks, which include the Marés stone windmill, the football field stands, and the skyline punctuated by the Church of Sant Joan Baptista and the Convent of Santa Anna. The single-story structure settles into the landscape through a sequence of low-rise vaults that trace a continuous, undulating roofline along the horizon.
 
Visible from multiple vantage points, the ceramic-tiled roof becomes the defining gesture of the project. Finished in a restrained...

Working Arts Club founder Meg Molloy says its growth is necessary since "class issues in the art world are systemic not geographic”

Layered masses define PROJECT RESIDENCE_BB 214’s architecture
 
Minimalist Architecture & Design Studio organizes PROJECT RESIDENCE_BB 214 in Ludhiana, India, as a composition of restrained volumes and calibrated voids. The design emphasizes spatial sequencing, proportion, and the controlled use of daylight, allowing the experience of the house to unfold gradually through movement and changing light conditions.
 
The residence is structured as a series of layered masses that negotiate openness and privacy through setbacks, screens, and spatial shifts rather than solid partitions alone. Circulation becomes a means of revealing the architecture incrementally, with filtered daylight entering indirectly and...

Activist. Iconoclast. Provocateur. English fashion designer Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022) is synonymous with many words, but one rules supreme: punk. Now, NGV pairs her up with Rei Kawakubo (b. 1942), founder of Comme des Garçons, an equally radical Japanese creative force whose driving philosophy has long been to “break the idea of clothes.” The pair of “self-taught rebels” were born a year apart in different countries and cultural contexts. Yet, as NGV reveals, they shared many remarkable commonalities. Perhaps most striking is that their debut runway collections, both launched in 1981, revolved around the same title and theme: pirates. It makes for an intriguing curatorial premise. NGV’s...

Nel suo lavoro più recente, Stephanie Temma Hier indaga il confine poroso tra pittura e scultura, facendo dialogare immagini dipinte e strutture ceramiche in composizioni ibride che mettono in crisi la bidimensionalità dell’immagine. Swan Song si configura come un percorso unitario, in cui cornici, oggetti domestici e figure ricorrenti concorrono a costruire un immaginario sospeso tra quotidiano e straniamento. Attraverso una pratica che intreccia temporalità differenti – l’immediatezza della pittura e la lentezza irreversibile della ceramica – la mostra riflette sui temi della trasformazione, del consumo e del passaggio del tempo, evocando una fine che non coincide con una chiusura, ma con...

A historic house on the village square
 
Designed by Vi.architectuuratelier, De Zwarte Fles office renovation stands on the village square of Zwijnaarde near Gent, Belgium and brings new working life to a former country house shaped by four centuries of change. The project combines a restoration with a compact office addition fronted by a decorative facade, allowing the historic building to return to a residential presence while supporting a contemporary studio program.
 
Dating from 1616, the house carried layers from its time as a residence and later as a café restaurant. Past alterations focused on masking wear rather than strengthening architectural coherence, while extensive paving wrapped the building...

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G-SHOCK watches by casio inspired by origami
 
Casio’s origami-inspired G-SHOCK watches let the wearer feel the texture of washi paper around the accessory’s bezel and band. Rooted in the traditions of Oshōgatsu, Japan’s New Year celebration, the models pay homage to the nation’s ancient craft. In fact, the series draws on the material used for origami, the washi paper, and reflects that by placing the tactile grain of washi on the surfaces of the timepiece design. 
 
The bezel and band then are finished with a subtle, fibrous texture, introducing ‘paper’ molded with polymer. Across the bezel and strap, dotted line graphics replicate the visual guides used in origami diagrams. These markings...

The institution is offering a “voluntary exit scheme” for all employees and will be reducing its activities

The cultural sector is ripe for a great commissioner, and the moment demands one more than ever.As Mayor Mamdani prepares to appoint a new commissioner for the Department of Cultural Affairs, we need a public counterpart who understands that progress is built with civil society.Throughout the last decade, the field has assumed a more active civic role. Artists, cultural workers, and partners in government and philanthropy have organized through cultural plans like CreateNYC and the People’s Cultural Plan; weekly Culture@3 and New Yorkers for Culture and Arts advocacy calls; coalitions like the Cultural Equity Coalition, Latinx Arts Consortium of New York, Safety Net Coalition, and Voices for Creative New...

Although our sugary contemporary Valentine’s Day traditions are a far cry from its brutal origins in Ancient Roman sacrifice and martyrdom, it’s not uncommon for February 14 to inspire a little pain. It’s an occasion to reflect on romantic love, and with that comes the pressure to externalize such musings, from planning the perfect date to avoiding all plans in defiance of the social code. This year, we suggest letting the city’s whims define your day. Yes, love is in the air. But get out of your head and let artists be your guide. It’s just a Saturday with a high probability of finding free heart-shaped candy. Below are 10 art-adjacent cultural activities that will immerse you in visual worlds...

Art Basel returns to Hong Kong this March with 240 galleries and an expanded program, including a reimagined Encounters section and the Asia debut of the digital-focused Zero 10. Following its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach in December, Zero 10’s first Hong Kong outing will feature 14 exhibitors with a program that includes digital animations by DeeKay examining psychological states through the lens of early video games (via a presentation by AOTM); a meeting of AI, sculpture, installation, and traditional ink painting featuring works by Seneca, Qu Leilei, Tim Yip (at Asprey Studio); and a “participatory blockchain -based work” by Robert Alice (at Onkaos). For this year’s edition, Encounters will be...

Earlier this week, news broke that the Trump administration had quietly removed the Pride flag that once waved over the Stonewall National Monument in New York’s West Village. Several New York City and State elected officials condemned the flag’s removal, and many gathered to reinstate it on Thursday afternoon. Gay City News first reported on the flag’s removal on Monday, with the removal likely happening over the weekend. A report in amNewYork quoted Tim Sutton, a local resident, who said he witnessed the removal on Friday, February 6, at around 10am. At the time Sutton didn’t realize what was going on, telling the paper, “I’m standing right here and I think, ‘What are they doing?’ I thought,...

Szilveszter Makó’s enigmatic photographs carry layers of mystery and introspection. Standing inside curious block-like backdrops and lain against two-dimensional fields of color and texture, his subjects seamlessly meld into stories in which every detail carries intention. Taking inspiration from art history, the Milan-based artist references Surrealism and grotesque art through his use of chiaroscuro effects via light exploration and contrasting earth tones. Similar to 20th-century Surrealist paintings, Makó’s images delve into uncanny realms and evoke a dreamlike sense of unfettered imagination. It’s no surprise that the photographer was once a painter and has suggested that these impulses may be a...

Next month, during the spring sales in London, Sotheby’s will auction off ten works to raise money for the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which has been in a financial crisis since the pandemic. The works have all been donated by living or honorary Royal Academicians, in the hopes of raising enough funds to “secure the future of the Royal Academy as a place where creativity flourishes and artists can fully realise their vision,” Batia Ofer, chair of the Royal Academy Trust told the Art Newspaper. The cumulative high estimate of the works is around £2.6 million ($3.7 milion). Among the works on offer is a tapestry by El Anatsui (estimate £800,000-£1.2 million) and an oil painting by Sean Scully...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Tina Rivers Ryan Steps Down From ArtforumI take no pleasure in saying "I told you so." Really, I don't. But I was hardly shocked by this week's news that Tina Rivers Ryan, who was named editor-in-chief of Artforum in 2024 after the dumpster fire that was the magazine's handling of an open letter in support of Gaza, was stepping down (Daniel Wenger and Rachel Wetzler will step in as co-editors, scrapping the editor-in-chief title altogether). It is almost like firing your previous editor-in-chief in suspect circumstances, issuing a paltry...

At age 85, Gladys Nilsson brings her playful sensibility to new drawings that unravel myths about gender, aging, and intimacy, Lauren Stroh writes for Momus:I am thinking of Picasso because his prurience usefully counters the critical modalities typically brought to the work of Gladys Nilsson, a Chicago-based artist who began painting in the wake of second-wave feminism and is still all-too-often expected to address the “woman question.” Because her female figures take on unruly proportions—are fleshy and voluptuous, or otherwise unconventionally attractive—critics have framed their sensuality as a disruption of misogynist art-historical norms (though the works also resuscitate classical ideals of...

The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has named the sixty-one artists and collectives slated to participate in the Fifty-Ninth Carnegie International, to take place May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027. Titled “If the word we,” this edition of the quadrennial event is the largest to date and will appear at the Carnegie as well as various institutions across the […]

The Queens Museum in New York has announced Debra Wimpfheimer as its new executive director. A native of Queens, Wimpfheimer has worked for the institution on and off since 2002, most recently as deputy director. She will succeed Sally Tallant, who is set to become the director of London’s Hayward Gallery this July. Wimpfheimer has held senior development positions at the Museum […]

The new mayor of Jersey City, James Solomon, said a long-planned outpost of the French museum is no longer happening

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In works that merge sculpture, fashion, and kite-making, Hai-Wen Lin traverses the thresholds that connect one’s physical self, the mind, and the elements. The artist describes their practice as “an act of reorienting: looking back, looking forward, looking in, looking up.” Using a wide range of materials, Lin creates vibrant, abstract compositions in textile often manipulated with cyanotype patterns or dyed with natural hues such as indigo and turmeric. They make kites “that speak the language of clothing,” blurring definitions of craft, art, garments, and acts of play. “October 8th 2:56-3:56pm Wicker Park; a picnic together // we probably shouldn’t feed the sparrows” (2022), tannic acid-toned...

Diana Soviero chats with Roger Pines about six decades of performing, four decades of teaching, and how she’s handing the tradition off to the next generation.

Die Entführung aus dem Serail boldly goes where no opera has gone before at Pacific Opera Project. 

Despite some complications, the Deutsche Oper exhumes buried treasure in Franz Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber. 

Museums have long served as vital vessels of culture, shaping collective memory whilst nurturing curiosity and imagination. They provide spaces where history, art and ideas intersect, allowing society to reflect on its past and envision its future. Exhibitions, programmes and public engagement offer opportunities to explore diverse perspectives and challenge conventional thinking. Within their walls, knowledge and creativity coalesce, creating narratives that transcend time and place. The New Museum has become a beacon for contemporary art, offering a platform for artists to interrogate the present moment and speculate on what lies ahead. Its reopening signals a new chapter in the ongoing mission to inspire,...

The Solti recording of Bohème is completely miscast.

Yorgos Lanthimos needs no introduction. From the unsettling minimalism of Dogtooth to the baroque intensity of The Favourite, his films have repeatedly reshaped contemporary cinema. Celebrated for a singular vision that balances absurdist humour with acute human insight, Lanthimos has become synonymous with uncompromising originality. Five-time Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, the Jury Prize at Cannes and the Golden Lion at Venice attest to the scale and reach of his imagination. Each work exists as a world, meticulously constructed and unnervingly precise, drawing audiences into spaces that are intimate yet disorienting. This same careful orchestration informs his latest venture: a major...

 
What does love look like? Sometimes it comes with lust and desire, sometimes with deep-rooted care from the heart, and other times it’s a disguise for something that isn’t love at all.
Love can be found in the quieter gestures of everyday life. It can look like kindness, the people and places you hold dear, moments of care and support, or the small comforts that bring you peace: a cup of tea, a single flower, a familiar corner of home.
DO YOU LIKE LOVE? is a metaphor for the things that bring us joy and comfort, and for what we offer others to help them feel the same. Within the pages of DO YOU LIKE LOVE?, photographers answer the question – do you like love?
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C’è stata anche la dolorosa questione iraniana nell’appena conclusa 49esima edizione di Arte Fiera a Bologna, anno domini 2026 (la prima firmata dal nuovo direttore Davide Ferri). Il rinnovato padiglione esterno Esprit Nouveau, esatta riproduzione di quello parigino firmato da Le Corbusier, ha ospitato infatti una (molto) concettuale e potente installazione/performance dell’artista franco-iraniana Chalisée Naamani. Chalisée Naamani,”Wardrobe”, Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, Bologna, 2026. Un progetto di Arte Fiera in collaborazione con Fondazione Furla,  ph credits Team99, courtesy l’artista e Ciaccia Levi (Parigi-Milano)
Proposta dalla Fondazione Furla, “Wardrobe” è un’installazione...

The best design shows reveal how creativity, science, innovation and technology intersect – influencing the very world around us. Those working in the space blend traditional art with bold new methods, creating something striking and unexpected. These five international exhibitions shine a spotlight on the pioneers pushing the discipline forward, inviting audiences behind the scenes of their practice. Together, they trace the complex and fascinating evolution of design, unpack the methods and thinking behind the work, and explore how these ideas resonate within contemporary culture and everyday life. Hella Jongerius: Whispering Things  Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein | Opens 14 March  Hella Jongerius is...

February 11, 2026, New York, NY — Today, Artforum announces a restructure to its editorial leadership. Tina Rivers Ryan, who has served as Editor in Chief for the past two years, will depart her role at the end of February. Two current staffers, Executive Editor Rachel Wetzler and Editor Daniel Wenger, will now lead the publication’s editorial initiatives […]

When we think of terms like “flowing” or “fluid,” we could be referring to the nature of water, but we can also just as easily apply these concepts to our understanding of art and craft. Fabrics “pool” and different mediums converge. The nature of creativity is often referred to in terms of an “ebb and flow.” Ecologically speaking, bodies of water are metaphorically woven into the fabric of our planet. Rivers and lakes sustain an abundance of life, shape cultures, and course through history. Amid the ongoing climate crisis, how do artists express concerns about water and the environment? Water | Craft, a group exhibition at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, dives into this question. The museum...

A bad Facebook experience turned Brown off to social media, but he ultimately brought David Henry Nobody Jr. to Instagram... Read the full article by clicking above!
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Although James Reka finds total freedom in his studio practice, it’s public art that he gravitates toward. The Australia-born artist researches the history of a building or neighborhood as he conceptualizes a mural and enjoys the constraints of creating within a particular geographic and cultural context. “Public art needs to connect with the local community,” he says. “It does need to have a narrative or a message, even if it’s very subtle. I am mindful of this and choose to view it as a challenge to explore certain themes and color combinations that my studio work does not.” Rheine, Germany Reka renders minimalist shapes into dense compositions with a distinctive sense of vitality and movement....

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Yemeni-Egyptian-American artist Yumna Al-Arashi (b. 1988) creates work with a singular purpose: to oppose the oppression and stereotyping of women worldwide. The artist uses a range of media – photography, book, sculpture – to explore how the Arab world is depicted, question the legacy of colonialism in our thoughts and contemplate matriarchal traditions that are all but lost. Huis Marseille presents Al-Arashi’s first solo museum exhibition, titled Body as Resistance, which brings together her entire oeuvre. Featured works include dyptich Axis of Evil (2020), which depicts four women from the countries designed “rogue states” by the US government and Shedding Skin (2017), made in a bathhouse in...

In un mondo dell’arte che, nell’attuale frangente di deriva imperialista, autoritaria e bellicista, è apparso finora troppo silente e timido, la Fondazione Merz di Torino ha scelto di schierarsi. Diverse mostre e iniziative che vi hanno avuto luogo di recente, a partire dalla mostra dell’artista palestinese Khalil Rabah nel 2023, si sono collocate senza timore nel discorso politico, attraverso un fare cultura che è anche informare e creare comunità. Prendendo spunto da una considerazione tratta da uno scritto di Mario Merz, “la cultura si sveste e fa apparire la guerra”, la mostra collettiva Push the Limits 2 si pone in continuità con questi intenti e costituisce il secondo capitolo di una...

The organizers of Frieze New York have revealed the sixty-seven galleries that will be participating in the event’s fourteenth iteration, slated to take place May 3–17 at the Shed, which has hosted it since 2021. The exhibitors represent twenty-six countries and include stalwarts such as Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, Perrotin, Thaddaeus Ropac, White Cube and David Zwirner. Among […]

The Minneapolis-based designer discusses his viral anti-ICE protest signs

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FRENCH PLACE, realtà nata a Londra nel 2020, inaugura la nuova sede di Milano con CORALE. L’impianto critico della mostra permette alle ricerche degli artisti di incontrarsi in un magico e spontaneo punto di tangenza, secondo una visione che sostiene la libertà e l’opacità delle singole poetiche. CORALE rispecchia una condizione polifonica, un ecosistema in cui il visitatore si muove tra progetti e identità diverse.
AA.VV, “CORALE”, installation view, ph Francesco Paleari, courtesy of FRENCH PLACE
La pratica di Matthias Odin, primo artista in residenza, coniuga l’esperienza del situazionismo francese, ancorato alla nozione di psicogeografia coniata da Debord, alla circolarità del movimento...

In 1979, with the publication of The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams, Williams unintentionally coined a term that would come to define an art movement. But he began intentionally carving out its place in the world long before... Read the full article on Robert Williams by clicking above.
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Con More Than This, la Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna accoglie un progetto espositivo che mette in tensione due dimensioni in apparenza inconciliabili: l’istituzione museale storica e una pratica pittorica radicalmente contemporanea, nata all’interno di un contesto formativo e laboratoriale. La mostra, curata da Daniele Capra, riunisce dodici artisti formatisi all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia nell’ambito dell’Atelier F, restituendo non tanto una “scuola” intesa in senso stilistico, quanto un metodo condiviso fondato sul lavoro, sul confronto e sulla continuità del fare.
AA.VV., “More Than This”, installation view at Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, 2026, ph. Irene Fanizza, courtesy...

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There’s just 2 weeks left to submit your work for Feeling Seen, a community-centered photography project inviting you to share what you’re experiencing right now.
We want photographers to capture the essence of their current emotions, sensations, and surroundings. Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.
It’s about exploring how photography can express both internal and external sensations – whether it’s the rush of anticipation, the dis/comfort of the body, nostalgia of memory or tension of conflict. This project believes in photography’s power to evoke real...

“When I look for places in the city to locate my sculptures, or take photographs, it is a bit similar to [mushroom hunting]. I like to observe the city with that gaze for little details.”Read the full article by Silke Tudor by clicking above.
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The frolicking skeleton children, bat-human creatures, and a lizard girl named Claudine embody the wild imagination of Matt Gordon, a mixed-media artist based in Plymouth, Michigan. Read the full article by Andy Smith by clicking above!
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