Category: art
Creativity, design, culture, inspiration
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The Lume digital art gallery at Indianapolis Museum closes
In 2021, the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields turned the museum’s fourth floor contemporary art galleries into an exhibition space for high-tech digital art called the Lume. Over the past five years, the controversial initiative featured immersive, crowd-pleasing exhibitions like “Van Gogh Alive” (2021), “Monet & Friends Alive” (2022-23), and “Dalí Alive” (2024-25). However, read more
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Wool Creature Lab’s felted nudibranch art world
Among the myriad delights of the marine world, nudibranchs count among some of the most adorable. There are around 3,000 known species of these often very colorful, textured, soft-bodied animals. Technically part of the mollusc family, they shed their shells as they grow older, so we sometimes refer to them as “sea slugs,” but the read more
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Fly’s Eye Dome’ sculpture collapses in Long Island blizzard
The LongHouse Reserve is fundraising for the restoration of Buckminster Fuller’s iconic fiberglass sculptureFly’s Eye Dome(1976), which sustained damage during the blizzard that blanketed the East Coast on Sunday. According to the Long Island institution, the outdoor sculpture buckled under heavy snow and collapsed. “It’s devastating,” LongHouse directorCarrie Rebora BarratttoldArtnet News. “It’s our most iconic read more
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Winston Churchill statue vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’
A bronze statue of Winston Churchill near the Houses of Parliament in London was vandalized with graffiti reading “Stop the Genicide” and “Free Palestine” as well as “Never Again is Now” and “Globalise the Intifada.” As reported by the BBC, a 38-year-old man named Caspar San Giorgio was arrested after the incident on Friday and read more
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Carmen Reviriego on Spain’s cultural funding future
Carmen Reviriego talks less like the head of cultural foundation than someone building an engine. On a warm evening in Madrid, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, she moved through the International Patronage Awards with calm efficiency, greeting patrons (like ARTnews Top 200 collector Batia Ofer, this year’s winner of the read more
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Unseen painting confirmed as true Rembrandt by Rijksmuseum
A painting that disappeared from view during the 1960s and hasn’t been seen by the public since then is a bona fide Rembrandt, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum said on Monday. Titled Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, the painting was produced in 1633 and was initially discredited by scholars well-versed in Rembrandt’s oeuvre. But following a two-year read more
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Middle East museums brace for war; Whitney Biennial news
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. Good Morning! Museums across the Middle East are under threat amid bombing attacks. Seventy-five museum and biennial exhibitions to see this spring. Diya Vij has been selected to become commissioner of New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs. The Headlines LINE OF FIRE.As the death read more
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Radioposter launches Paper-fi with synced soundtracks
For all the talk about 2026 being the year of analog, most of the conversation has been about rediscovering old formats like vinyl, film photography, and journaling. What’s been missing from these hobbies is something genuinely new, a reason to believe paper can do more than it did before. Radioposter is betting it can. The read more
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74 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Spring
All roads lead to Italy this season, and not only because the Venice Biennale, the greatest art exhibition of them all, opens there in May. Over in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is staging a Raphael retrospective—the first ever devoted to the Renaissance master in the US, shockingly. In Paris, at the Louvre, read more
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Whitney Biennial shifts to infrastructural interventions
This year’s Whitney Biennial spotlights “the greater United States”—a term from historian Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire. It describes not only the country’s 50 states but also its occupied countries, annexes, military bases, and territories. Strategically, Immerwahr argues, words like “colony” and “empire” have been evaded by officials since World War II—but that’s read more
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Maximum’s Billex turns bank notes into furniture
Money manufacturers the world over are forever contending with counterfeiters. Before the U.K. introduced a new pound coin in 2017, for example, the earlier version was easy enough to fake that there were tens of millions of fraudulent copies in circulation. The same goes for paper bank notes, which over the years have been printed read more
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Frieze Week LA: Mobile LED truck displays Epstein emails
Artist Tod Lippy has been following reports about art world figures who maintained friendships and correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—even after his crimes were public—and been left with the nagging sense that the consequences have been too mild. Billionaire collector Leon Black still sits on the board of New York’s Museum of Modern read more
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Diya Vij Named NYC Commissioner of Cultural Affairs
Diya Vij, a curator and current vice president of curatorial and arts programmes at Powerhouse Arts, has been picked to be New York City’s next Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) commissioner, sources with knowledge of the pick told ARTnews. The New York Times confirmed the news on Saturday. Considered to be one of the most read more
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Sacred Valley ceramics studio inspired by ancient Peru
Just north of Cusco in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, a small studio draws on ancient Peruvian traditions. The town of Urubamba is home to Ceramicas Seminarios, a workshop founded by husband and wife Pablo Seminario and Marilú Behar in 1980. For decades, the pair and their team have been crafting sculptures, functional wares, read more
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The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced
Book Review Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world. Louis Armstrong, Basin Street East, New York (c. 1954–56) (© Lisette Model Foundation, courtesy Eakins Press Foundation/The Metropolitan Museum of Art via Art Resource, New York) read more
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Giancarlo Politi, ‘Flash Art’ founder, dies at 89
Giancarlo Politi, publisher, art critic, and founder of Flash Art, one of the most influential contemporary art magazines to emerge from Europe’s postwar era, died on February 24. He was 89. News of his death was first reported in the Italian-language press. Founded in 1967 in Rome, Flash Art was among the first regularly published read more
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Elephant seal pups win 2026 underwater photo award
From dramatic aquatic encounters to deep caves to fish and amphibians closely guarding their eggs, there’s an entire world below the surface that few of us ever really get to see. That’s where images like those in the annual Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) come in, glimpsing some of the darkest depths and most read more
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Scotch & Soda Launches Basquiat-Inspired Collection
Amsterdam-based fashion brand Scotch & Soda released a collection this week that is inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat and features some of the artist’s work. The collection is a partnership with the Basquiat estate, via the global licensing agency Artestar. In a press release, Scotch & Soda said that like Basquiat, who is best known for read more
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The Case for Boycotting the 2026 Venice Biennale
In May, the 2026 Venice Biennale, curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, will open with the theme In Minor Keys. In December 2025, the Israeli Ministry of Culture announced that Belu-Simion Fainaru will be representing Israel at the 61st International Art Exhibition. The Israeli Pavilion in the Giardini remains closed, supposedly for renovation, but the read more
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SVA Is Shutting Down Its MFA in Curatorial Practice Program
On Thursday, the School of Visual Arts announced that starting next year, it will no longer offer a masters of arts degree in curatorial practice. The update was shared with faculty via an email from Steven Henry Madoff, who founded the department in 2013 and has been chair of the two-year program for the past read more
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