The Jarman Award is a landmark moment in the cultural calendar. The prestigious annual prize, now in its eighteenth year, recognises emerging creatives working with moving image across the UK. It is named after visionary artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942 – 1994), platforming work that embodies the spirit and legacy of his experimental approach. Its list of former recipients is a who’s-who of major players in the contemporary art scene. Winners include Heather Phillpson, Imran Perretta, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Luke Fowler, and Sin Wai Kin. The 2025 shortlisted creatives are Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, Karimah Ashadu, Onyeka Igwe, Morgan Quaintance, George Finlay Ramsay and Hope Strickland....
fotis zapantiotis embeds winery into the earth in greece
In the northern part of Evia, Greece, Fotis Zapantiotis proposes a winery that respects the natural terrain, the surrounding vineyard, and the process of winemaking itself. The 1,500-square-meter Ktima Aidipsos is entirely embedded in the earth to minimize the visual impact on the landscape while also creating ideal conditions for wine storage and maturation.
The building leaves only two geometric marks on the land, a straight line and a circle. The linear building houses the production facilities, which are positioned behind a retaining wall and hidden from view. This structure contains all the functional areas of the winery, including the...
In the northern part of Evia, Greece, Fotis Zapantiotis proposes a winery that respects the natural terrain, the surrounding vineyard, and the process of winemaking itself. The 1,500-square-meter Ktima Aidipsos is entirely embedded in the earth to minimize the visual impact on the landscape while also creating ideal conditions for wine storage and maturation.
The building leaves only two geometric marks on the land, a straight line and a circle. The linear building houses the production facilities, which are positioned behind a retaining wall and hidden from view. This structure contains all the functional areas of the winery, including the...
«[…] l’artista non ambisce a differenziarsi in nulla da un pio artigiano» (Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, La danza di Śiva)
La neocostituita Fondazione Emilio Scanavino apre al pubblico con una mostra a cura di Marco Scotini e Michel Gauthier, visitabile fino al 22 giugno 2025, dal titolo evocativo: Les Monstres Amis, dedicata all’apporto descritto da Emilio Scanavino e del gruppo di Albisola all’interno della Triennale di Milano del 1954. L’esibizione documenta un contributo essenziale avvenuto nel corso di un anno, il 1954 appunto, che vedeva Scanavino come una figura cruciale che, pur risentendo delle istanze di esponenti di diversi climi artistici (il post–surrealismo, Cobra, il Mouvement...
La neocostituita Fondazione Emilio Scanavino apre al pubblico con una mostra a cura di Marco Scotini e Michel Gauthier, visitabile fino al 22 giugno 2025, dal titolo evocativo: Les Monstres Amis, dedicata all’apporto descritto da Emilio Scanavino e del gruppo di Albisola all’interno della Triennale di Milano del 1954. L’esibizione documenta un contributo essenziale avvenuto nel corso di un anno, il 1954 appunto, che vedeva Scanavino come una figura cruciale che, pur risentendo delle istanze di esponenti di diversi climi artistici (il post–surrealismo, Cobra, il Mouvement...
tuckey design studio adapts a landmark in somerset
Wool Hall, located in a village in Somerset, has been reimagined by Tuckey Design Studio as a residence and private recording studio. The Grade II listed structure carries a layered history of craft and music production, serving as a quiet outpost for artists including The Smiths, Van Morrison, and Paul Weller.
The studio’s approach respects both the architectural and cultural significance of the site. A sixteenth-century hall, a 1980s rear extension, and several later additions presented an irregular collage of forms and materials. The design response involved unifying these disparate elements, improving thermal performance, and restoring the site’s...
Wool Hall, located in a village in Somerset, has been reimagined by Tuckey Design Studio as a residence and private recording studio. The Grade II listed structure carries a layered history of craft and music production, serving as a quiet outpost for artists including The Smiths, Van Morrison, and Paul Weller.
The studio’s approach respects both the architectural and cultural significance of the site. A sixteenth-century hall, a 1980s rear extension, and several later additions presented an irregular collage of forms and materials. The design response involved unifying these disparate elements, improving thermal performance, and restoring the site’s...
an immersive mystery lands in new york
At Pier 36 in downtown Manhattan, Hermès is set to open Mystery at the Grooms’, a sprawling interactive installation that invites visitors into a fictional French estate teeming with theatrical intrigue. The event runs from June 19th through June 29th and transforms a former warehouse into a series of immersive rooms populated by equestrian staff, luxurious objects, and a puzzle waiting to be solved.
The project centers on the Grooms’ House, a domestic world created for the caretakers of the Hermès horses. From the outset, the setting affirms the brand’s equestrian heritage, which dates to 1837 when Hermès was established as a harness and saddle maker....
At Pier 36 in downtown Manhattan, Hermès is set to open Mystery at the Grooms’, a sprawling interactive installation that invites visitors into a fictional French estate teeming with theatrical intrigue. The event runs from June 19th through June 29th and transforms a former warehouse into a series of immersive rooms populated by equestrian staff, luxurious objects, and a puzzle waiting to be solved.
The project centers on the Grooms’ House, a domestic world created for the caretakers of the Hermès horses. From the outset, the setting affirms the brand’s equestrian heritage, which dates to 1837 when Hermès was established as a harness and saddle maker....
German sculptor, painter, and installation artist Günther Uecker, known for deploying the common nail in austere works of profound power, and for his membership in the pathbreaking Zero Group of the 1960s, died on June 10 in a hospital in Düsseldorf, where he lived. He was ninety-five. His work was minimal in nature, but Uecker […]
You can’t spell “rainbow” without “rain.” Despite less-than-ideal weather, Brooklyn Pride Day kicked off without a hitch this past Saturday, June 14, with its annual celebration convening local queer community members and allies for family-friendly festivities in a 14-block stretch along Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue. Beginning at noon and carrying on well after the sun had set, the volunteer-run event consisted of a daytime street festival and twilight parade that later transformed into a full-out block party (no pun intended), as per tradition. It gathered a plethora of local artists and performance groups, cultural organizations, neighborhood businesses, health advocacy groups, and city politicians,...
The National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL) and the Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, DC, are on the chopping block as the Trump administration targets the Smithsonian Institution. President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget proposal does not include funding for NMAL nor the Anacostia Community Museum, which opened in 1967 with the vision of expanding outreach to Black residents of the capital city. If the president’s budget request passes, the Anacostia Community Museum would be dissolved into the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The NMAL would be replaced with programming “throughout the institution” led by a decentralized Smithsonian Latino Center. However,...
In May of 1982, Budapest-born artist Agnes Denes congregated with a small group of volunteers at Lower Manhattan’s Battery Park Landfill. They planted wheat berries onto the plot of land, which, once grown, created a lush field of wispy stalks juxtaposed against the city’s skyline. Visually striking, the ecological artwork was in part a protest against exploitation, greed, and the destruction of people and the environment. The paltry $158 spent on seeds stood in stark contrast to the $4.5 billion evaluation of the land itself. Denes’ “Wheatfield—a Confrontation” is one of ten case studies presented in Lauren O’Neill-Butler’s timely new book. Released on the heels of this weekend’s mass...
Dealers reported solid sales at the fair’s VIP preview, a good sign after a tough year in the art world
Richard Mudariki, the artist behind the ‘Art World Passport’, says his visa was rejected by the Swiss embassy in Pretoria, despite having two letters of invitation from Swiss organisations
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Israeli attacks on cultural and religious sites in occupied Palestinian territory amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, an independent investigation conducted by a United Nations commission has concluded in a new report. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem and Israel investigated reports of attacks on cultural, religious and educational sites in Gaza, and in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as a whole, as well as in Israel. The commission concluded that Israel has “obliterated Gaza’s education system and destroyed over half of all religious and cultural sites in the Gaza Strip,” a statistic...
Rhea Dillon and Joyce Joumaa's pieces feature in Art Basel's Statements section
UOVO, a collector-founded art storage facility in the U.S., is seeking approval in New York to build a second location in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. The proposed seven-story, 240,000 sq. ft building would be located at 74 Bogart Street, currently a parking lot, and would expand the company’s footprint near its existing 150,000 sq. ft Bushwick facility, which the company opened before the pandemic in 2020. Founded in 2013 by Steven Guttman, a Miami-based real estate developer, UOVO operates 30 locations across the U.S., with a large-scale headquarters facility in Queens. The company, which stores and manages collections for museums, galleries, and high-net-worth individuals, is aiming to convert...
The year 1912 began quite badly for Henri Matisse. Once considered the king of the French avant-garde and Fauvism, he had recently been dethroned by a young Pablo Picasso and his Cubist cohort. Critical and financial support were now scarce for Matisse, and life in the cut-throat Paris art scene had become unbearable. Ready for a change of scenery — and of luck — the 42-year-old painter bought a one-way ticket to Tangier, Morocco’s storied port city. Matisse set off in search of luminous North African light, but all he got when he landed in Tangier was heavy, driving rain: “It’s been a downright flood,” he complained to a friend back home. The two-week-long deluge did more than dampen the...
An unplanned work stoppage by employees at the Louvre in Paris caused the museum to close for several hours on the morning of June 16, as throngs of ticketed visitors waited outside in the blazing sun. The spontaneous halt, described by a Louvre spokesperson as a “social movement,” took place immediately after a monthly staff […]
How can one capture invisible forces like wind, gravity, motion, and balance in visual art? For Japanese kinetic sculptor, installation artist, and author Susumu Shingu, the answer lies beyond the four corners of a canvas, and requires playfully engaging with space and the elements in real time. In his first museum solo show in the United States, the artist is bringing his animated sculptures and maquettes to the Japan Society in New York City for Susumu Shingu: Elated!, on view from June 20 through August 10. At nearly 88 years old, Shingu has devoted his career to transcribing the physics of nature through gargantuan, technologically elevated sculptures. And yet, with so much wisdom and experience under his...
Nancy Astor, Marisol with several of her sculptures (1964), photographic print (image courtesy Buffalo AKG Art Museum) DALLAS — It is difficult to say which surprises more after viewing this retrospective of Marisol and reading the associated catalog — that there hasn’t been more acclaim for her remarkable body of work, or how much early attention she did receive before slipping out of a prominent place in the art-historical narrative. This comprehensive reassessment, curated by Cathleen Chaffee for the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, demonstrates the full force of her playful interweaving of painted and sculpted elements while also tracing the larger arc of her...
Fragile, light-sensitive works have been given a dedicated gallery as part of institution's rehang
For two years, Adam Chinn, former chief operating officer at Sotheby’s, has been quietly building the boutique art lending firm, International Art Finance with funding and support from members of the Nahmad family. In a recent interview with ARTnews, Chinn revealed that firm has now disbursed nearly $400 million in loans and it is on track to reach $500 million before the end of 2025. Chinn is the latest art industry veteran to take a stab at art loans. Last fall, half a dozen similarly sized art lenders told ARTnews that business was booming despite high interest rates. IAF claims an edge over competitors in scale and speed: Chinn said loans can be disbursed in 10 days and its typical loan-to-value ratio is...
teenage engineering’s first electric moped, epa-1
For the first time, Teenage Engineering designs a customizable electric moped with the Swedish brand Vässla. Named epa-1, the acronym stands for ‘En Passar Alla,’ or ‘one fits all.’ The design teams say that the name refers to the electric moped being customizable and easy to update depending on the preference of the rider. They can choose to add different accessories onto the base of the ride, including a front rack, a passenger seat, a helmet box, some floor decals, and even a cargo basket. Around Teenage Engineering’s first-ever electric moped is a series of small screw holes, all of which are for custom mounts, accessories, upgrades, and...
For the first time, Teenage Engineering designs a customizable electric moped with the Swedish brand Vässla. Named epa-1, the acronym stands for ‘En Passar Alla,’ or ‘one fits all.’ The design teams say that the name refers to the electric moped being customizable and easy to update depending on the preference of the rider. They can choose to add different accessories onto the base of the ride, including a front rack, a passenger seat, a helmet box, some floor decals, and even a cargo basket. Around Teenage Engineering’s first-ever electric moped is a series of small screw holes, all of which are for custom mounts, accessories, upgrades, and...
The University of California, Irvine, said it is discussing the possibility of a deal with the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa that would see the institutions merge. “UC Irvine and the Orange County Museum of Art are exploring a transformative agreement that will open a new chapter for OCMA and establish a new model for public arts engagement, scholarship and access” read a statement from UC Irvine last week. “A nonbinding, exploratory letter of intent has been signed, and the two organizations continue to develop a definitive agreement, pending approval of the University of California Board of Regents.” According to the Los Angeles Times, that board will vote on the merger in the fall. The...
The Baloise Art Prize, a $36,800 award given out to two artists participating in the Statements sector of Art Basel annually, has this year gone to Rhea Dillon and Joyce Joumaa. Dillon’s work was brought to the fair by London’s Soft Opening gallery, whose booth showcased her “Leaning Figures” sculptures made from materials such as soap and molasses. As Nicole Kaack wrote in the recent “New Talent” issue of Art in America, Dillon produces “visceral portraits of postcolonial Black experiences from everyday objects, symbols, and language.” Joumaa, a participant in last year’s Venice Biennale, is showing at Art Basel with Montreal’s Eli Kerr Gallery, whose booth is devoted to an installation by...
In Specimen Garden, Pamela Poh Sin Tan translates the ambiguous ecologies of her large-scale public works into freestanding sculptures. Tan, who works under Poh Sin Studio, frequently fuses principles of art and design, and for this series of coral-inspired forms, she embellishes sand-coated laser-cut steel with small chalcedony stone beads. “Inspired by the ethereal elegance of natural systems—coral, roots, jellyfish, diatoms—these works reflect my fascination with the subtle, intelligent structures of the natural world,” she says. “Fanora” Drawing on the ornamentation traditions of her Chinese-Malaysian heritage, the artist fuses contemporary techniques with timeless themes of fragility,...
Renowned avant-garde film historian P. Adams Sitney, whose 1974 landmark volume Visionary Film remains a canonical work of experimental cinema history, died June 8 at his home in Rhode Island following a brief bout with advanced metastatic cancer. He was eighty. A cofounder of New York’s Anthology Film Archives, Sitney coined the term “structuralism” to […]
FCBStudios blends industrial heritage with low-carbon design
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBStudios) has delivered a major redevelopment in central Sheffield, UK, titled Heart of the City. Commissioned by Sheffield City Council and delivered with strategic development partner Queensberry, the project forms part of a long-term urban regeneration initiative, introducing a multi-building, mixed-use neighbourhood on a historically significant site. The structure is anchored by three core buildings: Elshaw House, Cambridge Street Collective, and the restored Leah’s Yard.
Instead of adopting a singular large-scale intervention, the masterplan overlays new structures onto the existing urban grain. The...
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBStudios) has delivered a major redevelopment in central Sheffield, UK, titled Heart of the City. Commissioned by Sheffield City Council and delivered with strategic development partner Queensberry, the project forms part of a long-term urban regeneration initiative, introducing a multi-building, mixed-use neighbourhood on a historically significant site. The structure is anchored by three core buildings: Elshaw House, Cambridge Street Collective, and the restored Leah’s Yard.
Instead of adopting a singular large-scale intervention, the masterplan overlays new structures onto the existing urban grain. The...
In our ever more globalized society, we have technology to thank for the unprecedented connectivity we enjoy, both in our ability to fly or sail practically anywhere and have face-to-face video chats from halfway around the globe. It’s easy to forget that the turn-by-turn directions we use on our phones or locations we tag on social media are all built upon time-honored analog maps that have been used for centuries. And forget virtual credit cards—remember good old fashioned cash? For South African artist Faith XLVII (previously), cartography, money, and national symbols provide the foundations for ongoing series like The Deconstruction of Value and Chaos Theory. She cuts apart old maps, discontinued...
John Yohalem reports on Catapult Opera’s satiating San Giovanni Battista
“You’re seeing less than half the picture…without the vision of women artists and artists of color.” This was a declaration from renowned feminist collective, the Guerilla Girls, in a 1989 piece from the series Guerrilla Girls Talk Back. Another from the collection read: “When racism and sexism are no longer fashionable, what will your art collection be worth?” The provocative message is typical of the anonymous group, who used posters, public art, newsletters and stickers to draw attention to discrimination in contemporary culture. It has been more than thirty years since they created the series, but today the message is still alarmingly relevant. There are 3,050 galleries in the Artsy database,...
From new Silk Roads to satellite networks, M HKA’s latest exhibition reveals how artists are mapping the fault lines—and future dreams—of a world in motion. Köken Ergun and Fetra Danu, China, Beijing, I Love You! […]
Photo Basel, Switzerland’s first and only art fair dedicated exclusively to photographic art, returns for its 10th anniversary edition from 17-22 June. This year, it welcomes over 150 artists from 15 countries – taking the temperature of image-making today. Below, you can discover five standout images from the fair’s 39 participating galleries. Our list includes vast landscapes by Ellen Kooi; bright, bold portraits of youth from Sarfo Emmanuel Annor; Natsoumi’s ethereal mist-imbued horizons; light-drenched architectural spaces by Carli Hermès; and Olena Zubach’s skilfully crafted still life collage compositions. Ellen Kooi, Marrum Dobbe (2024) | Camara Oscura Galeria de Arte, Madrid Olena Zubach,...
Alex Ross wrote an exciting, gorgeously detailed examination of, for better or worse, Ricky’s far reaching influence on music, theatre, architecture, film, literature, mental illness, Satanism, Homosexuality, and rough sex.
Togo-born, Brussels-based photographer Hélène Amouzou (b. 1969) unveils a major new site-specific photo installation, In Between, at London’s Royal Docks on 18 June. The project, which launches during Refugee Week (16–22 June), is produced in collaboration with Praxis, a local charity that supports refugees and migrants, and co-curated by The Line and Arup Phase 2. The series comprises six analogue portraits made in Amouzou’s signature haunting, lyrical style – marked by overexposure and movement. The works emerged from intimate, artist-led workshops with members of Praxis. At the heart of each image is an object chosen by the participant – something that reflects their heritage, identity, or life...
Nel cuore di Vienna, tra le pareti rarefatte della Galerie Kandlhofer, si apre Embodied Rituals come un corpo vivo, articolato e attraversato da onde sotterranee. Lontana dall’essere una semplice collettiva, la mostra costruisce un vero e proprio campo di forze tra tre artisti – Donna Huanca, Harminder Judge e Hermann Nitsch – per i quali il gesto non è una semplice traccia, ma un atto trasformativo, e la materia non è un supporto, ma una manifestazione. A unire i lavori non è tanto un tema, quanto una densità sensibile condivisa, un’energia che attraversa superfici, corpi e residui. Le opere esposte non raccontano rituali: li performano, li evocano, li rilasciano sotto forma di pigmento,...
Canyon, a new institution centering sound, video, and performance art, is set to open in New York in 2026. Conceptualized by MASS MoCA founding director Joe Thompson and philanthropist and art collector Robert Rosenkranz, Canyon will be housed in a 40,000-square-foot disused space inside the Essex Crossing complex on Delancey Street in Manhattan, near the […]
“The model railroader is the truest creator: engineer, architect, and master of his own timetable,” reads a statement about Josh Dihle’s feverish exhibition, Basement Arrangement. Armed with hundreds of minuscule objects from coral to LEGO, Dihle concocts dreamlike worlds in which figures become topographies and every cavity houses a surprising detail. Peek inside the cheek of “Moreau/Detrick Reliquary,” and find a wooly mammoth with lustrous stones embedded in its wooden tusks. “Confluence” is similar as carved fish jut out of the foam-and-plaster ground alongside trees and palms with widespread fingers. Detail of “Confluence” (2025), oil, acrylic, colored pencil, resin, fossils, rocks,...
Taking diagrams to a new level, U.K.-based studio collective Dorothy creates prints that celebrate information—charts, maps, alphabets, color wheels, and blueprints. The team has also plunged into the world of cutaway drawings, which are popular for visualizing otherwise opaque, multilayered objects in the manufacturing world. Cutaway diagrams have actually been around for centuries, with the form originating in the 15th-century notebooks of Italian Renaissance engineer Mariano “Taccola” de Jacopo. Dorothy’s twist on the 3D graphic form, a series titled Inside Information, is a celebration of pop culture and modern technology, from Apple computers and sneakers to boomboxes and theremins. Detail of...
Opera Director and Detroit Opera Artistic Director Yuval Sharon begins his recent book A New Philosophy of Opera by imagining a future – some forty to fifty years from now – in which opera ceases to exist as an art form.
Introducing the artists of tomorrow. This summer, the UK’s top art schools are spotlighting rising voices in visual culture. Graduate shows are where future greats first make their mark. They offer a platform to the freshest new talents – creatives who are making waves, pushing boundaries and changing the way we see the world across a huge variety of media. Here are five showcases to add to your diary. From traditional craft to new media, their message is loud and clear: arts education is essential in driving innovation. UWE Bristol: Showcase 2025 1,200 graduates. 40 courses. Showcase 2025 spans Bower Ashton and Frenchay Campus, as well as key cultural venues across Bristol – Arnolfini and Spike Island...
«Laura Omacini è un’artista solare e delicata, come la sua arte». Mi introduce alla visita con queste parole Sara Sartori, neoassessore comunale a Montecchio Emilia (RE) con delega alla Cultura, mentre ci aggiriamo nelle stanze bene illuminate e bene allestite di Casa Cavezzi. Laura Omacini è la vincitrice della quarta edizione del “Premio Massimiliano Galliani per il disegno under 40”, evento annuale che la fiera d’arte ArtVerona e l’Associazione culturale artMacs di Montecchio, nata per specifica volontà della famiglia Galliani a ricordo di Massimiliano, anch’egli artista e morto all’età di 37 anni, organizzano, insieme al Comune di Montecchio, per onorare la memoria dell’artista...
Sulla costa orientale della Sicilia, alle pendici dell’Etna, si estende il Parco Botanico Radice Pura, con le sue tremila specie di piante, per un totale di settemila varietà che sono il risultato di oltre cinquant’anni di lavoro della famiglia Faro nel settore florovivaistico. Non è solo un immenso giardino: è una testimonianza, un archivio vivente di piante, arbusti, aromi, essenze, fiori e colori. Ma è, soprattutto, il luogo dove si svolge, ogni due anni, il Radice Pura Garden Festival ovvero la prima Biennale dedicata al paesaggio del Mediterraneo. È stata inaugurata da poco l’edizione 2025 del Festival, dal titolo “Chaos (and) order in the garden”, con cui si intende valorizzare la duplice...
La storia di uno spazio d’arte potrebbe essere pensata come la storia del concetto di luogo. Sebbene la differenza tra i due termini sia davvero inavvertibile, il primo è in riferimento a un’estensione fisica, mentre il secondo ha una stretta relazione con le entità socioculturali di cui vive, attraverso un senso di libertà ideativa rispetto a ciò che è comune e non singolare. La vera forza vitale di quei territori, dove trovano spazio studi d’artista e sale espositive, è nella comune volontà di fare arte, pertanto, qualsiasi progetto venga ideato non è nell’intenzione di ciò che si può fare, bensì di ciò che si vuole fare. In particolare, l’offerta culturale di Palermo necessita di...
Kim Sajet is stepping down as director of the National Portrait Gallery. Sajet was the first woman ever to hold the role. Her departure comes after President Donald Trump announced in a social media post late last month that he was firing her because she was “a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of […]
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Michelle Kuo, Chief Curator at Large and Publisher at MoMA, reflects on bringing Whitten’s prophetic, genre-defying legacy into full focus – where spirit, struggle, and radical abstraction converge. Installation view of Jack Whitten: The Messenger, on […]
Karla Funderburk, Photo by credit Isabella Mancebo Karla Funderburk Los Angeles, CA Age 64 In collaboration with Robyn Richardson I...
