Devyani Saltzman is leaving the Barbican in London, marking another major leadership shake-up just weeks after the center welcomed its new CEO. Saltzman, who became director of arts and participation in February 2024, had only recently unveiled a five-year creative vision for the venue, making her sudden departure all the more surprising.Recognized as one of the 40 most influential women in the UK arts scene, Saltzman was described as the “driving force” behind the Barbican. Her work included shaping the artistic programme and leading community engagement, and over the past 18 months she had become the public face of the institution, sharing her vision widely in interviews.The Barbican has so far declined...

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TUWAIQ SCULPTURE EXHIBITION OPENS IN RIYADH
  As the capital of Saudi Arabia continues its rapid cultural metamorphosis, the seventh edition of Tuwaiq Sculpture Symposium and Exhibition arrives to punctuate the city’s skyline with 25 large-scale works. The exhibition, which runs from February 9 to 22, 2026, occupies Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Street (Al Tahlia), turning a site once defined by water desalination into a into a temporary urban installation. By positioning these large-scale artworks along a historic axis of innovation, the program explores how public art can act as a catalyst for urban renewal and quality of life.
banner: Emergence by Wafa Alqunibit
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paul bernier architecte shapes lake brompton house in canada
 
On a wooded, sloping site overlooking the water in Quebec, Canada, Lake Brompton House by Paul Bernier Architecte takes form as a three-wing, single-story residence that fans outward to frame views of the lake. The project is positioned high on the terrain, using its elevation to open toward the landscape while allowing the surrounding mature forest to remain visually dominant. The house breaks into distinct arms that follow the topography and orientation of the site, forming three converging wings organized around a central point of circulation.
 
This fan-shaped composition allows each volume to respond to light, views, and the gradient of the...

Happy Lunar New Year and Ramadan to our readers who celebrate. May this be a year of peace, health, and prosperity for us all. May it also be a year when artists can make a living from their work, when autocrats are overthrown, when traffickers and their accomplices are brought to justice, when art ceases to be an investment tool, and when bad-faith art writing sponsored by billionaires vanishes from this world. Enjoy reading! —Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief Sarula Bao, Think!Chinatown’s Lantern Residency artist, holds up her handcrafted puppet to celebrate the Year of the Horse on Mott Street in Manhattan. (photo Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic)Chinatown Sets the Year of the Fire Horse AglowAll along Mott...

BERLIN DESIGN WEEK IS BACK IN FULL SWING
  Berlin Design Week returns to the German capital from May 28 to 31, 2026. Under the theme DESIGN REAL, the festival marks a strategic shift toward design with substance — solutions that address real-world problems and drive change across the spectrum of architecture, product design, and research. Joining the 2026 edition as the official media partner, designboom takes on the task to amplify the festival’s international reach and connect Berlin’s vibrant community with a global audience.
Berlin Design Week returns from May 28 to 31, 2026 | all images courtesy of Berlin Design Week
 
 
THE FESTIVAL BECOMES AN INTERNATIONAL STAGE FOR DESIGN
 
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Little known outside his native Sweden, the artist was a master of marble, but also created grotesque and erotic drawings

For the Sacramento-born artist, who faced wartime incarceration for his Japanese ancestry as well as homelessness, art was a way to survive crises

Nicole Nikolich’s Retro crochet artworks in exhibition
 
Artist Nicole Nikolich presents a series of hand-crocheted flip phones, Game Boy consoles, and computer icons in the 2000s for her solo show in Philadelphia. Exhibited at Paradigm Gallery + Studio from March 6th to 29th, 2026, the fiber artist, also known as Lace in the Moon, has produced more than 30 of these objects by hand, all of which are made from yarn. With a small hook and yarn, she builds each object stitch by stitch, and every piece is made of thousands of small loops. These patterns look like pixels on a screen, and in this way, soft yarn becomes a physical copy of these digital images.
 
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Catherine Opie talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work

TROPIBOX KOCHI HOUSE translates personal memory into space
 
Tropibox Kochi House is conceived by Tropical Architecture Bureau as a residence in Kochi, India, that translates personal memory into spatial organization. The client, a chef, sought to reinterpret the atmosphere of a modest childhood home within a contemporary architectural framework. Central to the brief was the creation of a generous kitchen positioned as the social core of the house, supported by intimate living areas and garden spaces that maintain a continuous relationship with the outdoors.
 
The house follows an L-shaped plan responding to the site’s sloped topography. An introverted exterior facade conceals an open internal arrangement...

The latest exhibition at MASS MoCA grapples with the rapidly advancing technologies that are reshaping daily life. From AI and algorithms to computer-aided design, Technologies of Relation brings together 12 creatives who move beyond the oft-referenced binary of digital innovation as “good” or “bad,” instead offering more nuanced viewpoints. The goal: “to reframe how we relate to each other, to our devices, and to our future.” This show acknowledges that contemporary tools can indeed “manipulate, marginalise, and oppress us,” whilst also asking how they might be resisted, redirected and wielded more ethically. “Artists have long been key to identifying the colonialist logic, racism and...

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In 2026, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago marks its 50th anniversary, a milestone that prompts reflection on photography’s shifting status within the cultural landscape. Founded in 1976 and initiating its collection in 1979, the museum has amassed more than 18,000 objects by over 2,000 artists, forming a collection that charts half a century of aesthetic, political and technological change. The anniversary exhibition MoCP at Fifty: Collecting Through the Decades functions as both a celebratory gesture and a critical enquiry into how institutions shape photographic history. It offers an opportunity to look back at the museum’s evolving priorities and consider how these...

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Il maestoso Palazzo de’ Toschi, luogo che durante Arte Fiera era già stato deputato a ospitare precedenti mostre di Art City, torna a farsi scenario espositivo anche in questa edizione 2026, accogliendo un progetto di stampo concettuale che ragiona sulla nozione di realtà, rappresentazione e illusione, all’interno del campo dell’arte, utilizzando gli strumenti che le sono propri.
Francisco Tropa, “Miss America”, installation view at Palazzo de’ Toschi, ph. Carlo Favero, courtesy Banca di Bologna
La mostra dal titolo Miss America curata dal direttore di Arte Fiera uscente, Simone Menegoi, è la prima personale in Italia di Francisco Tropa, uno degli artisti portoghesi più significativi...

Prolific director Frederick Wiseman, whose pathbreaking documentaries shed light on aspects of society hitherto in shadow, died on February 16 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was ninety-six. News of his death was announced by his family through his distribution company, Zipporah Films. First gaining wide acclaim for his 1967 film Titicut Follies, which exposed the […]

The British Museum acknowledged that it had updated certain displays in its Middle East Galleries with “terms such as ‘Canaan,’” the Biblical Hebrew name for the Southern Levant region, amid news reports accusing the institution of erasing Palestinian history.Canaan refers to an ancient region that encompassed modern-day Palestine, Israel, Syria, and Jordan. According to some academic sources, the term first emerged around 1500 BCE, and the region's earliest inhabitants settled in Jericho in the modern Occupied West Bank. In the Old Testament, Canaan also refers to the land promised to the Jewish people by God. “Some labels and maps in the Middle East galleries have been amended to show ancient...

The annual event, now in its 36th edition, connects younger generations to the energetic and deeply symbolic Indigenous performance art

After weeks of Arctic temperatures, the Year of the Fire Horse has finally brought the heat to New York City. Today, February 17, Lunar New Year festivities ran along the stretch of Chinatown's Mott Street on a glorious 45-degree-Fahrenheit afternoon. Carrying a handcrafted puppet in the shape of a horse, illustrator and educator Sarula Bao summoned good tidings by taking a new approach to a traditional Chinese folk art form.This year, Bao was selected for the Lantern Residency, an annual initiative organized by cultural nonprofit Think!Chinatown (T!C) that invites artists to create and showcase their interpretation of the paper lantern, a traditional staple in celebrating the Lunar New Year. Through her...

The Trump administration must restore exhibits examining the role of slavery in early United States history after a preliminary ruling by a Philadelphia federal judge yesterday, February 16. Last month, federal employees descended on the President’s House in Independence National Historical Park, a site overseen by the National Park Service (NPS) that once held the country's first presidential mansions. Following a Trump mandate to remove public displays that paint US history in a “negative light,” officials dismantled the outdoor exhibition Freedom and Slavery in Making a New Nation. The city of Philadelphia responded by suing the NPS and the Department of the Interior (DOI), arguing that the...

In an exhibition across two Manhattan galleries, queer artists from Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and their diasporas come together to invite us to "find one another in the dark," Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar writes. As you can see, Valentine's Day is technically over, but love in all its forms is still very much in the air (or is that just the first 40+ degree day getting to my head?). Check out the many lovely ongoing exhibitions related to the subject across the city, such as one on sex and cults and another by the fairy godmother of queercore. (Think: giant penis bedecked in baby-pink frills).Plus, this week also brings the Lunar Year, Ramadan, Ash Wednesday, Mardi Gras, and ... a lunar...

London-based photographer Peter Li considers the cathedrals, basilicas, and historic spaces he captures to be “living vessels of light, symmetry, and time.” Soaring ceilings, gilded filigree, and saintly stained glass windows both reflect religious traditions and create a sanctuary for such practices. Whether in the luminous Gothic style or awe-inspiring Baroque, these spaces are also often architectural marvels, which Li documents through an almost portrait-like approach. Many of his panoromas span 180 degrees and offer a symmetric, reflective view of the space through a meticulous stitching process. This perspective accentuates the dramatic, all-consuming effect of standing beneath ascendant rib vaults...

As Cuba endures rolling blackouts and a plunging standard of living, more than 100 artists, curators, and cultural workers have issued a public appeal for international intervention, arguing that the longstanding US oil blockade has made efforts to stabilize the island’s spiraling humanitarian crisis all but impossible. The letter, titled “Cuba is Not a Threat” and published February 16 on the website Peoples Dispatch, was signed by scores of nationally recognized Cuban intellectuals, including Culture Minister Alpidio Alonso Grau, the poet and academic Miguel Barnet Lanza, visual artist Lesvia Vent Dumois, and Viengsay Valdés, director of the National Ballet of Cuba. “Cuba’s greatest wealth lies in...

3D Drawing has been at the core of Morling’s artistic practice for roughly a decade. Read all about the artist's work by clicking above.
The post Black & White, Ceramic, And Totally Personal: The sculptures of Katherine Morling first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

On Super Bowl Sunday, Universal Pictures debuted the first full-length trailer for Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s latest extraterrestrial epic. Scattered throughout the trailer are repeated references to cardinals, presented as a kind of harbinger of alien life. If that sounds a little familiar, eagle-eyed art viewer, you’re not alone. Artist Trevor Paglen took to Instagram last week to note the visual link between his 2024 and 2025 shows at Altman Siegel and Pace—both titled “Cardinals” and exploring the history and present of UFO photography—and the new Spielberg film. “Not even mad it’s just kinda weird—I think he should buy some art 😂😂😂,” Paglen wrote. Naturally, ARTnews...

“The world I build has no constraint, no logic. Everything is possible,” says Pontiroli. “My objective is to shake our imagination by developing a universe based on the absurd and the senseless.” Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
The post Sometimes You Just Have To Hug That Walrus: The Humorously Surreal Paintings of Bruno Pontiroli Twist Our Relationship with the Animal World first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

Police in Queensland, Australia, have arrested a man suspected of stealing precious Egyptian artifacts from a museum outside of Brisbane. According to local reports, the 52-year-old man was arrested Saturday on Russell Island in Moreton Bay after police discovered part of the stolen haul in a camper van parked at a ferry terminal. Among the recovered items was a 2,600-year-old wooden cat figure from Egypt’s 26th Dynasty, the last dynasty ruled by a native Egyptian pharaoh before the Persian conquest. Police apprehended the suspect within two days and returned most of the artifacts to the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology in Caboolture. Authorities said he entered through a smashed window facing its...

Comparing the Trump administration’s efforts to control historical documentation to George Orwell’s 1984, a federal judge ordered the return of displays that acknowledge George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people to a monument in Philadelphia. Last month, the National Park Service removed the signs from the President’s House Site, the presidential residence for Washington and John Adams before the completion of the White House. The President’s House Site is part of the Independence National Historical Park, which is managed by the NPS. The removed exhibit described “the local history of slavery and commemorating the nine enslaved people Washington kept there while he was president,”...

Eugenio Viola will leave the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) in May after seven years in the dual roles of artistic director and chief curator. The museum announced the news on its social channels on February 6, praising his “avant-garde and professional vision” and saying his departure followed a “comprehensive and ongoing review […]

Marina Rebeka comes tantalizingly close to triumph in Cherubini’s Médée at Théâtre des Champs Elysées.

For all of the “progress” associated with advancing technologies and the purported conveniences of having tiny, powerful computers at our fingertips, there are certainly some drawbacks. Smartphones today—and their millions of apps—are data-collecting devices as much as they are portals to search engines, maps, social media, the news, and anything else on the internet. And the market for regular hardware upgrades and software updates can trap us in a perpetual loop, spending big money for faster speeds and the newest features. There’s certainly some merit in phones and gear that are a bit “less smart.” Just as the Luddite Club, members of which prefer to switch off or use “dumb phones,” citing...

Documentary photography began to be used as social reform evidence in the 19th century, with early practitioners using the camera to record social conditions and urban poverty. This was truly solidified in the 1930s, when the Great Depression in the USA saw figures like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans turn the lens on human dignity within the economic crisis, whilst later war photography from Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson brought global conflicts to home audiences. Since the dawn of the medium, the camera has gone hand-in-hand with social activism and consciousness. These five exhibitions foreground the masters of the craft, from those like Brassaï and Helen Levitt, who pioneered the field during the...

It was many decades ago that I first listened to the Solti Ring Cycle.

In November 2025, Mental Health UK reported that more than one in three adults were using an AI chatbot to support their mental health or wellbeing. There were many reasons why: these tools fill gaps in overstretched systems, provide ease of access and anonymity. Yet further studies point to a darker side, revealing the potential for harmful advice and, ultimately, worse outcomes. Then there’s the issue of “sycophancy” – where researchers warn of chatbots’ tendency to flatter, reinforce bias, and bend the truth. What remains less examined, however, is not whether these systems can genuinely “feel,” but why humans continue to engage with them emotionally, even in the full knowledge that they are...

A Parigi, presso lo spazio espositivo Parliament Gallery, figure e immagini si dissolvono e sfumano senza scomparire. Tramite il colore a olio e diversi altri media l’artista Helmut Stallaerts crea una rappresentazione visiva che interpreta il nostro tempo. Lo spazio è qualcosa che viene meno, si dilata e si assottiglia, è una variabile. Ciò che rimane è la nostra presenza, che perdura anche senza il riferimento tangibile della nostra figura aprendosi alla rappresentazione più intima e profonda di noi stessi.
Helmut Stallaerts, “The Return”, 2025, olio e cera su tela, courtesy Parliament Gallery
La tecnologia adatta, connette e manipola l’uomo, creando una struttura comunicativa che lo estrania...

Revisiting Sean Keller’s essay on the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Their presence is implied. They’ve built gravity-defying structures from shopping carts, stacked newspapers, and plywood. They’ve hung laundry and left crushed beer cans scattered across surfaces, and yet the real subjects of Alvaro Naddeo’s paintings are never seen. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
The post The Price of Everything: The Art of Alvarro Naddeo first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

German artist Henrike Naumann, known for her installations of furniture and household objects addressing the turmoil of German reunification and showing how aesthetic choices affect political ideology, died in Berlin on February 14. She was forty-one. Her husband, Clemens Villinger, wrote in a statement that her death arrived “after a cancer diagnosis that came far […]

Hoping for a "Tristan for the ages" in New York next month, John Danaher considers five versions of Tristan's Act III "Muss ich dich so verstehn" for "Perspectives on an Aria."

Under the baton of Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale proves they have a magic touch in a program of Rameau and Handel.

Alfred Freddy Krupa works in ink, a medium through which questions of history and responsibility come sharply into focus. His practice emerges from a distinct artistic lineage, turning it into something fresh and modern, testing what that legacy can mean in the present. His studies in Zagreb provided a grounding in European modernism, whilst time spent in Japan introduced him to the discipline and restraint of Japanese aesthetics. Krupa developed a visual language out of these experiences, that treats tradition less as something to safeguard than as something to examine, unsettle and reshape. Krupa’s involvement in the arts stems from a childhood immersed in creativity. His grandfather, Alfred Krupa Sr., was...

Il lavoro di Jonathan Lyndon Chase si costruisce attorno a una riflessione sulla memoria come esperienza incarnata, sull’identità come processo relazionale e sull’appartenenza come spazio vissuto. Philadelphia, città d’origine dell’artista, diventa il luogo da cui osservare e restituire una geografia affettiva fatta di case, fisicità e relazioni.
Jonathan Lyndon Chase, “Keep thinking nobody does it like you here comes the sunset”, installation view at Gió Marconi, Milan, photo: Fabio Mantegna, courtesy the artist and Gió Marconi, Milan
In Keep thinking nobody does it like you here comes the sunset, personale dell’artista alla Galleria Gió Marconi, la dimensione domestica emerge come motore...

Austin Opera’s moving production of Fiddler on the Roof grounds itself in lived tradition, to great effect.

Non si tratta di una semplice retrospettiva del collettivo Opiemme (Torino, 1998), Senza bandiere v.3.0. Divide et impera è piuttosto una dichiarazione d’intenti, una poetica del dissenso visualizzato, che trasforma le opere in scenari di resistenza simbolica. Alla galleria Marignana Arte di Venezia sono esposti alcuni lavori realizzati negli ultimi quindici anni, che insieme funzionano come un manifesto artistico, poetico, sociale e insieme profondamente umano, dove ogni gesto e parola tracciata diventa un atto di lettura critica del presente. Il progetto prende forma attraverso le opere di Davide e Laura Bonatti, Margherita Berardinelli e Stefano Campano, membri del collettivo, riuniti in una pratica...

From Do Ho Suh’s ethereal architecture to Kimsooja’s irridescent mirrors to Lauren Halsey’s fringed tapestry, a new book from Monacelli celebrates a broad spectrum of light and color. Rainbow Dreams features more than 200 installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs, and more that revel in the possibilities of pigment. Bound in a smooth gradient that extends to the pages’ edges, this vivid survey is a celebratory, playful object in itself. Rainbow Dreams features numerous artists previously featured on Colossal, from Nina Chanel Abney and Nick Cave to DRIFT and Katharina Grosse, among many others. The book is slated for release on April 2, and you can pre-order your copy in the Colossal Shop....

La ceramica come materia che conserva memoria del gesto, come superficie su cui si stratificano segni e tempo, come forma ambivalente tra l’arcaico e il contemporaneo: è questo il territorio espressivo in cui Fiorenza Pancino (1966, S. Stino di Livenza, Venezia) situa la propria ricerca, radicata nella tradizione faentina ma capace di trascenderla per farsi riflessione esistenziale. La personale “Oro vivo”, curata da Margherita Maccaferri negli spazi di BoA Spazio Arte, riunisce un corpus di opere recenti attraverso cui l’artista restituisce un percorso di alchimia spirituale volto a trasformare il dolore, la rabbia e le emozioni più oscure in una forma di bellezza contemplativa.
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French police have detained nine people in relation to a ticketing fraud scheme that may have cost the Louvre €10 million ($12 million). The Paris prosecutors’ office reports that two Louvre staffers, several tour guides, and a person thought to be the organizer of the scheme are among those being held. “Based on the information available to […]

Hieu Chau compares his dense, dynamic compositions to his always active mind. Playing with scale and proportion, the Vietnamese artist renders surreal scenes in which flora and fauna converge and figures interact with the outside world as if in a dream. Chau, who was trained as a painter, now works digitally, although his pieces capture the grainy textures and gestures of a physical medium. The artist recently published a book collecting his projects from the last decade, and you can find explore an archive of these pieces on Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Surreal Dreams...

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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 Center 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 Island jail to the Brooklyn...

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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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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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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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