Sin dai tempi più antichi, la natura ha rappresentato per gli artisti una fonte di ispirazione fondamentale, declinata in un’infinità di varianti formali, allegoriche e tecniche a seconda delle epoche e delle civiltà. Al di là del genere canonico del paesaggio, incentrato su una rappresentazione verosimigliante o espressiva del visibile, la luce, il colore e la trama degli elementi naturali hanno offerto (e continuano a offrire) agli artisti inesauribili spunti per sperimentare processi e costruire linguaggi.
Fiorenza Pancino e Franco Tosi, “La sostanza naturale: un percorso emozionale tra scultura e pittura”, installation view, photo credits Cristina Bagnara, courtesy degli artisti
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Curator Aaditya Sathish recently recalled returning to Hong Kong from New York in 2020, at the height of the pandemic. It was, he said, a fascinating time. “From what I could understand, Hong Kong was very much a place to trade global contemporary art. But over the pandemic, there was a focus on the local. A lot of independent art spaces started to emerge, and I remember seeing everyone flock to these places,” he told ARTnews. “There was a desperate need to look at what was around us.” Indeed, Hong Kong’s art scene has been through a crash course in survival, shaped by a whirlwind of disruptions—from mass pro-democracy protests to the pandemic, and more recently, the imposition of the national...

suzuko yamada architects designs the compact concrete 'nakano house' for a couple and their two cats in tokyo.
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looped black and white animations highlight the rhythm and structure of natural motion.
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Artist Nona Faustine, whose self-portraits memorialized under-recognized narratives and fearlessly confronted violent histories, died on Thursday morning, March 20, at the age of 48 in New York City. The news of her passing was confirmed by the New York gallery Higher Pictures. The cause of her death has not been made public.Grounded in extensive research, Faustine’s photography often explored complex concepts of legacy, representation, trauma, and identity as they related to racial and gender stereotypes. Her work balanced critical reexaminations of White violence and settler colonialism with powerful tributes to ancestors whose stories had long been suppressed, ignored, or undervalued.“Nona Faustine was...

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Catherine Murphy is one of a handful of artists who changed observational painting between the 1960s and ’80s, when painting’s dominance was being contested. Murphy, along with Lois Dodd, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, and others, learned from abstraction and found a way to expand the parameters of observational painting, overturn assumptions regarding the relationship of two- to three-dimensionality, build upon predecessors’ innovations in composition, and pursue preoccupations with unlikely subject matter.Famous for painting at a slow pace, a Murphy exhibition is an event. Her commitment to Heraclitean observation means that you cannot step in the same river twice — she does not work in series, and her...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, California — It’s an extremely precarious time to be a trans person in the United States. Already tenuous civil rights for the trans community have been further restricted by the current, far-right administration. In less than 100 days in office, Trump has already enacted a slew of anti-trans legislation, including an executive order that forbids minors from receiving gender affirming care, and the Republican-controlled house passed its own bill that denies its first trans member, Delaware’s Sarah Elizabeth McBride, from using the restroom that matches her gender identity. As the next four years progress, trans people anxiously wait to see how their civil liberties will be whittled down...

Mary Cassatt’s circa-1880 watercolor, one of only two known self-portraits by the artist (image public domain via the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC)You would be forgiven for assuming, as I admittedly did until quite recently, that the Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt was French. After all, she spent most of her life in Paris, where she fell in with a group of pioneering French artists whom she often referred to as “our set” — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, and her close friend Edgar Degas among them. In 1894, she was named by art critic Henri Focillon as one of “Les Trois Grandes Dames” (“The Three Great Ladies”) of Impressionism, along with the French painters Berthe...

Thought to be lost to history for centuries, a newly attributed Andrea Mantegna painting depicting Jesus Christ’s descent from the cross has made its way from a church in Pompeii to the Vatican Museums for a three-month exhibition starting last Thursday, March 20. Found in poor condition, the painting was attributed to the Venetian Renaissance artist during the Vatican Museums’s intense and meticulous restoration.Prior to being identified, the last historical record associated with the painting dates back to the 16th century, when such a work was said to have been at the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples. Without any records of its transfer, the artwork was discovered at the Sanctuary of the...

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curved seating and shading structures by lj-group create a dynamic outdoor layout.
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It would take almost two days of non-stop driving to travel from Florida to California. There are nearly three thousand miles, and a three-hour time difference, between the two destinations. Both states lie on the 33rd parallel, a circle of latitude that is approximately midway between the equator and the Arctic Circle. In the USA, it encompasses 10 of the country’s southern states. Harn Museum of Art invites visitors to ride this invisible line through some of the country’s most scenic and dramatic topographies. The exhibition features work from seven photographers whose images span from 1961 to the present- day. Some images are grouped according to their location, providing a contrasting view of a single...

Oreste Zevola è uno di quegli artisti che riesce a farci vivere il presente con nostalgia. Giovedì 13 marzo è stata inaugurata una sua mostra, a dieci anni dalla scomparsa, negli spazi di “Al blu di Prussia” di Napoli, e la partecipazione è stata tale da far risplendere ancora di più il suo mondo sulle pareti. Zevola è un artista unico nel suo genere, figlio di quell’arte generata per intima necessità e non per vetrina o profitto.
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Nonostante i numerosi presenti e il vociare delle grandi occasioni, non è stato difficile riuscire a percepire la magia delle sue rappresentazioni. Settanta, per l’appunto, tutte tempera su tela, tutte realizzate tra il 2000 ed il 2004, più un...

the nordic pavilion, built from forest-managed wood, champions circular design, while saudi arabia blends computational design with vernacular cooling techniques.
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each piece can be fully unraveled and reused, embracing circularity.
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Playing cards, lights, fake flowers, plastic sculpture and submerged paintings.

Labor Day is a US national holiday celebrated to honour the American labour movement. The day was signed into law in July 1894, marking the official end of the Pullman Strike. This industrial action saw 250,000 factory workers at the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Chicago, walk out in protest of 12-hour workdays and reduced wages. It is just one example of countless moments of collective resistance, that have brought about progress and developments such as the weekend, better and safer working conditions and higher wages. These demonstrations were also tied up in matters of immigration, women’s liberation, civil rights and class struggle – in a nation where 211 million people are of working age, it underpins...

In occasione della presentazione del progetto fotografico “Sospesi – L’ Italia attraverso l’obiettivo di Jacopo Di Cera e Massimo Vitali”, a cura di Serena Tabacchi, per MIA Photo Fair (Milano, 20 – 23 marzo 2025), entriamo in dialogo con il fotografo Jacopo di Cera che introduce il progetto, raccontando della sua ricerca artistica e di progetti precedenti e futuri.
Jacopo di Cera, “Warm up”, Marcialonga, Val di Fassa, courtesy dell’artista
Sara Buoso: Vorresti parlarci del titolo scelto per il progetto fotografico Sospesi, per MIA Photo Fair, 2025? Questa parola sembra suggerire riflessioni prettamente fotografiche e altre di ordine metaforico in un senso più ampio.
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Nona Faustine, a photographer who used her work to highlight the perseverance of Black women, has died at 48. The Brooklyn Museum, which mounted an exhibition of the artist last year, confirmed her passing on social media. A cause of death was not specified. ARTnews has reached out to Higher Pictures, Faustine’s New York gallery. In ways both provocative and beautiful, Faustine’s photography explored conditions afflicting Black women across time. She frequently photographed herself in ways that considered how her body acted as a record of histories of exploitation and empowerment. “The true lives of Black women in the United States, if not in the world, are not seen,” she told the photographer Carla J....

The British Museum held the record for the most visited attraction in the UK for 2024 for the second year in a row. According to statistics recently released by Alva, the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, the museum in London saw 6,479,952 visitors in 2024, an 11 percent increase compared to the previous year. The Natural History Museum in South Kensington was the second most popular attraction at 6.3 million visitors, also with an 11 percent increase compared to 2023. Tate Modern was the 4th most visited with 4.6 million visitors. The Southbank Center, which includes the Hayward Gallery for contemporary art among its venues, had more than 3.7 million visitors, an increase of 17 percent compared to...

The organizers of the Taipei Biennial have announced the theme and participating artists for the event’s fourteenth edition, set to run from November 1, 2025, to March 29, 2026. Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the biennial is titled “Whispers on the Horizon” and will feature works by fifty-four artists collectively hailing from thirty-five […]

On April 10, Sotheby’s Paris will hold a sale dedicated to Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt, a Brazilian businesswoman and journalist and the founder of Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) in Rio de Janeiro. Bittencourt, who died in 2003, was a prodigious collector of mid-century Modernist masterpieces, including works by Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, and Max Ernst, as well as leading Brazilian artists of the era including Almir Da Silva Mavignier and Franz Krajcberg. For those unfamiliar with Bittencourt, that may soon change. Later this year, according to Sotheby’s, a biography by author Ricardo Cota will be released. Titled A Mulher que Enfrentou o Brasil (The Woman Who Faced Brazil), the book will tell how...

The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) has named Maud Page as its new director. Page, who since 2017 has served as deputy director and director of collections at the Sydney institution, is the first woman to lead the AGNSW since its founding in 1871. She will step into her new role on March […]

Carl Kostyál and The Photographer's Gallery are among the list of businesses fined for failing to comply with regulations

VEMBAKOTTAI, INDIA—The Deccan Herald reports on archaeological work that has been conducted at the site of Vembakottai in Tamil Nadu over the past three years. The Pandya Kingdom site has emerged as one of the most important archaeological sites in the region, even surprising archaeologists from the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology. “Vembakottai continues to bewilder us,” said excavation director Pon Baskar. The team has recovered over 12,000 artifacts dating to the Sangram era, which lasted from about 300 b.c. to a.d. 300. These finds include thousands of meticulously crafted glass beads and painted shell bangles that attest to Vembakottai’s role as a major production site for these...

THUAN THAHN, VIETNAM—Vietnamnet Global reports that two ancient boats were unearthed at the bottom of a fishpond in the northern Vietnamese province of Bac Ninh. The find was investigated by a collaborative team from the Bac Ninh Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Institute of Archaeology. The remarkably preserved vessels are both around 50 feet long. Although they are positioned about six feet apart, the presence of a wooden beam connecting their bows suggests that the two boats once functioned as a single unit. Their findspot is located on the Dau River, a tributary of the Thien Duc-Dong River, which flows past the ancient citadel of Luy Lau, around one-half mile away. Luy Lau may date back...

‘Diamonds are forever’ is the timeless advertising slogan developed for De Beers by copywriter, Mary Frances Gerety, in 1947. Rather... Read More

Appointments have been made at the British Museum, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum

Hive Curates & Landsec are inviting applications from artists or creative studios to create a new public sculpture.

LESICHOVO, BULGARIA—According to a La Brújula Verde report, construction workers installing a gas pipeline in Bulgaria’s Pazardzhik region accidentally unearthed a 1,700-year old rural Roman settlement. Archaeologists conducted further research and uncovered buildings with large storage jars embedded in the ground, suggesting the site served an agrarian function and was involved in food production and storage. During the Roman period, the settlement would have been strategically located along the Via Militaris, one of the main Roman commercial routes through the Balkans. A collection of silver coins dating to the third century a.d. were also recovered. However, evidence of fire indicates that the...

Opening in NYC the inaugural exhibition Digital Decadence: The Art of Falling Apart will showcase new works by pioneering digital artists

Major exhibition Dirty Looks marks the return of contemporary fashion to the Barbican and Lucy Raven presents a new commission for The Curve

Tracing Whitten’s artistic development with the largest ever show of his work, the story of an exhibition exploring the lives of Black artists in France, and Hans Ulrich Obrist on a monumental painting by the esteemed Indian artist Singh

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FREE AND SMALLER MUSEUMS MAKE SENSE. A new study by think tank Remuseum, argues museum admission should be free for smaller institutions, because it drives greater attendance without raising costs, reports NPR. The study doesn’t explain how cash-strapped museums can make up for the lost income, arguing that admissions “don’t generate profit, but instead subsidize the museum experience,” said Stephen Reily, Remuseum founding director. Similarly, the new data suggests that museum expansions intended to serve larger audiences often do not make financial sense, adds The Art...

During the 16th and 17th centuries, major developments in colonial expansion, trade, and scientific technology spurred a fervor for studying the natural world. Previously unknown or overlooked species were documented with unprecedented precision, and artists captured countless varieties of flora and fauna in paintings, prints, and encyclopedic volumes. Marking a first-of-its-kind collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World pairs nearly 75 prints, drawings, and paintings with around 60 objects from the NMNH collection. Jan van Kessel the Elder, “Insects and a Sprig of Rosemary” (1653), oil on...

Years later, inspired by Vincent’s paintings, the French artist became a “wild beast”

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The gallery in leafy south London suburb will begin hosting a farmer’s market this weekend

Nell’opera di Bri Williams (Long Beach, USA, 1993) prevale un senso di sospensione e attesa, una riflessione sul tempo, sulla metamorfosi delle cose, ma soprattutto sul loro continuo divenire. Nella scultura, il concetto di definizione sfuma, superando i confini del finito per rimanere nel dubbio, esplorando il senso dell’identità e dell’essere.
Bri Williams, “An arrow shot over the house that hits no one”, exhibition view at Clima, Milan 2025. Courtesy: the Artist and Clima, Milan. Photo: Flavio Pescatori
Negli spazi della galleria Clima, Milano, ci troviamo avvolti da un silenzio cauto, rispecchiato visivamente dalla sobrietà dei colori, dall’assenza di definizione e forme degli oggetti. Bri...

Momentum, the Nordic Biennale of Contemporary Art, has revealed the thirty-seven artists participating in its thirteenth edition, to take place between June 14 and October 12 at Galleri F 15 in Moss, Norway. Curated by Morten Søndergaard, this year’s iteration is titled Between/Worlds: Resonant Ecologies and will investigate sound as a medium for artistic exploration, […]

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Homo affinis erectus face fossil ATAPUERCA, SPAIN—Facial bones from the earliest human ancestor ever to walk in western Europe were found in a cave in northern Spain, according to a CNN report. In 2022, archaeologists from the Atapuerca Project found several bone fragments of an extinct human species at the Sima del Enfante cave site in the Atapuerca Mountains. The team spent the past few years meticulously reconstructing the pieces until they realized they formed the left side of the face of an adult human, nicknamed “Pink,” who lived between 1.2 and 1.4 million years ago. The researchers initially believed that the bones may have belonged to a member of the Homo antecessor species, which was known to...

Clay head of Asclepius AMPHIPOLIS, GREECE—According to the Greek Reporter, a team of archaeologists from the University of Patras and the Ephorate of Antiquities at Serres uncovered an enigmatic cultic building at the site of Amphipolis in northern Greece. The city was founded by Athenian colonists in 437 b.c., later became part of the Kingdom of Macedon, and was inhabited through the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Byzantine periods. While excavating a Byzantine basilica, the Amphipolis Project team revealed sections of an older, partially preserved structure. They also found a wealth of material culture associated with the use of this structure as the center of worship of an unknown deity. “The excavation...

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In characteristically glistening blue hues, Robert Peterson’s striking portraits invite us into emotionally complex inner worlds. Peterson centers the Black body in paintings that challenge dominant narratives surrounding Black lives, celebrating beauty, compassion, and resilience. Tender portraits reveal the essential humanity of vulnerability and individuality with an emphasis on themes of empathy and togetherness. “Protect Those Tears” (2025), oil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches Peterson’s choice of oils, a traditional portrait medium, embeds his work in the continuum of Western painting. However, instead of highly stylized scenes or elaborate ornamentation, his figures are often set against bold, flat...

Since its inception, the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography has been at the forefront of elevating female photographers on a global stage. Launched in 2022 as part of the V&A’s Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project, the prize has swiftly become a prestigious platform for fostering innovation and expanding the visibility of women in the field. The initiative acknowledges not only the artistic excellence of contemporary female photographers but also their ability to push the boundaries of visual storytelling. The prize has already left an indelible mark on the industry, with past winners and participants making waves internationally. Figures such as Silvia Rosi, whose work explores...

Art Paris returns for its 27th edition this April. The leading event for modern and contemporary art will host 170 exhibitors from 25 different countries. Visitors will be welcomed into the Grand Palais, its large glass dome an iconic part of the Parisian skyline. The structure was originally built in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle, which acknowledged the achievements of the past century and showcased technological innovations including the Ferris wheel and first ever passenger trolleybus. It is fitting, then, that Art Paris uses the location for its celebration of French art history and its promotion of new and emerging talent. The 2025 selection embodies the unique identity of Art Paris, a fair that is...

A group exhibition at The Cube, Eschborn, featuring 19 international artists exploring global themes through innovative visual storytelling. André Ramos-Woodard, ‘authenticity (2 CHAINZ)’ from the series BLACK SNAFU, 2020. © André Ramos-Woodard The Deutsche Börse […]

The AUTO PHOTO Awards are back! Celebrating, promoting and sharing the best automotive photography from around the world, creating new opportunities and collaborations, supporting photographers, and connecting creative communities.
Reaching an annual audience of over 1.8 million people, AUTO PHOTO introduces photographers to a host of opportunities and experiences through the Awards and supports them in getting published, receiving motorsport accreditation, and gaining paid commissions.
The Top 100 photographs selected for AUTO PHOTO Awards 2025 will be printed in our collectable AUTO PHOTO book, published by Shutter Hub Editions, and showcased in our Top 100 touring exhibition alongside our category and...

Nelle ultime settimane l’attenzione si è concentrata sulla nuova sede milanese della galleria UNA (già attiva nel panorama piacentino) e CASTIGLIONI, che ha inaugurato la doppia personale di Valentina Furian (Venezia, 1989) e Alessandro Carano (Varese, 1984).
Valentina Furian + Alessandro Carano, installation view, 2025, ph. credits Michela Pedranti, courtesy UNA / CASTIGLIONI
L’opera dei due artisti esplora in maniera innovativa forme, media e riflessioni già attivi e prosperi nel contesto artistico contemporaneo. Da un lato, il lavoro di Valentina Furian si sedimenta nel confine tra realtà e finzione, dove le separazioni nette vengono meno in un ambiente di continue mescolanze. Attraverso immagini in...

Discredited art adviser Lisa Schiff, who last year pleaded guilty to bilking her blue-chip clients out of $6.5 million, has been sentenced to thirty months in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release. Schiff must turn herself in to begin serving her term by July 1. The sentencing, which took place in […]

From the studio to her childhood bedroom in Columbus, Georgia, to the museum, a new film from Art21 presents a broad portrait of Amy Sherald. The artist is perhaps best known for her depiction of former First Lady Michelle Obama and her signature images of Black Americans rendered in grayscale. In “Singular Moments,” the Art21 team peers into Sherald’s process and captures the intricacies of creating a work. Reference photos taped to a wall and paint squirted onto white paper plates accompany the artist as she works on her increasingly large-scale canvases. Sherald frequently paints people she knows, beginning with their faces and eyes before moving on to the rest of their figures. As the title of the...

When asked about the influence of his partner on his photography, Joel Meyerowitz is unequivocally candid: “Maggie’s been part and parcel of my own continued playfulness in photography.” Anyone who’s even slightly interested in photography knows Meyerowitz. He’s created iconic images across a range of genres: chaotic snapshots of Fifth Avenue, the delicate light of Cape Cod and, more recently, still-lifes and self-portraits. His range is amazing and, at 86, he’s still taking pictures. But not many people know his partner, Maggie Barrett, who’s also an artist – a painter, writer and musician to be precise. The two met in the early 1990s, a time when Barrett was successful locally – “a big...

Although recycling paper uses less water than manufacturing the material from wood pulp, the process still requires significant energy and resources. The team behind Resketch has found a way to skip that step altogether. Founded by Chicago-based artist Shawn Smith and now helmed by Skaaren Design, the company makes notebooks and sketchpads of unused architectural diagrams, maps, logs, sheet music, and more. The resulting designs offer users the opportunity to creatively engage with the original markings and add their own additions to the printed pages. Flipping through a notebook also becomes an act of discovery as old calendars or bureaucratic forms are tucked between graphs and lines. “Through partnerships...

The first known postcard printed as a souvenir can be traced to Vienna in 1871, followed by commemorative cards for famous events like the completion of the Eiffel Tower in 1889 and the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. It wasn’t long before a fashion for picture postcards took the U.S. by storm throughout the first half of the 20th century. For David Opdyke, the iconic correspondences form the groundwork for an artistic practice examining capitalism, globalization, consumerism, and our fraught and increasingly disconnected relationship with the environment. Occasionally darkly humorous yet steeped in a sense of foreboding, his uncanny scenes suggest what kind of world we might live in if we do nothing to stem...

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