Category: art
Creativity, design, culture, inspiration
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Labubus, Vintage YouTube, Pimple Patches, and More On View in the V&A’s Reopened ‘1900-Now’ Galleries
On Wednesday, the V&A in London reopened several galleries dedicated to design from the past 126 years. The newly installed Design 1900-Now spaces, which had been closed since November, showcase 250 objects from the 20th and 21st centuries, from a first edition of Kim Kardashian’s coffee table book Selfish, published in 2015, to a bottle read more
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French Police Search Institut du Monde Arabe As Part of Epstein Probe
French police raided the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris on Monday as part of an investigation into its former president, ex–culture minister Jack Lang, who resigned earlier this month amid scrutiny over his past ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The cultural institution was one of several premises searched, France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s read more
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Nan Goldin’s Photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary at Gagosian
“I don’t ever want to be susceptible to anyone else’s version of my history,” wrote photographer Nan Goldin at the end of her essay for her major photo book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, first published in 1986. In the 20-plus printings of her debut—and still most celebrated—work, Goldin has never changed the foreword (although read more
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Sotheby’s Hikes Buyers’ Fees, Restitution Battle Over Franz Marc Painting Heats Up, and More: Morning Links for February 18, 2026
Good Morning! A restitution battle over a Franz Marc painting in the collection of the Folkwang Museum in Germany heats up. As of last Friday, Sotheby’s has raised its buyers’ fees worldwide. British artist and Turner Prize winner Tai Shani has withdrawn a Phaidon monograph following sexual assault allegations against owner Leon Black revealed in read more
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Marilyn Minter Wins Anderson Ranch’s International Artist Award
Marilyn Minter, known for her feminist practice that blends painting and photography, has won this year’s International Artist Award from the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Minter will be honored at the annual Ranch Gala, part of the Ranch’s annual Ranch Week series in July. Ranch President and CEO Peter Waanders told ARTnews in an interview read more
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From Gorillaz to the Port of Los Angeles: Stephen Thomas Gallagher to Debut a Trippy New Film During Frieze LA
There are many people who say they have the coolest job in the world. Stephen Thomas Gallagher might actually have a case. Hedesigns live showsfor Gorillaz and Lana Del Rey. He helped build ablazing London tower block with a tube train smashed through itat Glastonbury, and once brought a little bit (or rather,a whole chunk) read more
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I Swam To See an Underwater Art Project Off Miami Beach That Imagines a Better Aquatic World
The news about the environment, as you may know, is not good. President Donald Trump recently announced that he was erasing the finding that climate change endangers humans and the environment, meaning the Environmental Protection Agency can no longer control pollution. The glaciers on Greenland are melting faster and faster. Partly owing to climate risks, read more
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Devyani Saltzman Abruptly Leaves Her Role as Director of the Barbican in London
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. Recently recognized as read more
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For 83-Year-Old Artist Mia Westerlund Roosen, Endurance Rather Than Attention Has Fueled Her Creativity for Decades
When artist Mia Westerlund Roosen debuted her conical sculptures, which unmistakably recall phalluses, at the “25th Anniversary Exhibition of Leo Castelli” in 1982, she did so as a form of feminist protest. The exhibition, celebrating one of the postwar era’s most important galleries, had assembled together a pantheon of postwar American artists, the majority of read more
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Did the British Museum Remove Palestine From Its Displays?
News The institution acknowledged altering some texts to refer to Canaan, an ancient name for the region, but said the word “Palestine” still appears elsewhere. Pro-Palestine activists and climate advocates rally at the British Museum on June 1, 2024. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images) The British Museum acknowledged that it had updated read more
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Chinatown Sets the Year of the Fire Horse Aglow
News Sarula Bao created a fabric horse in the style of “bu zha,” an embroidery art form, for New York nonprofit Think!Chinatown’s annual Lantern Residency. 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. (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) After weeks of read more
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Judge Orders Trump Administration to Reinstate Exhibits on Slavery
News The Philadelphia display was dismantled last month after federal directives to remove negative representations of US history on public sites. A panel describing the history of slavery at the President’s House site in Philadelphia (public domain via Save Our Signs) The Trump administration must restore exhibits examining the role of slavery in early United read more
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Queer Arab Art Today
New York Newsletter An exhibition by queer artists from the diaspora, what we need from NYC’s culture commissioner, Lunar New Year events around the city, and more. 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 read more
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Striking Photos by Peter Li Capture the Soaring Majesty of Sacred Spaces
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 read more
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More than 100 Cuban Cultural Leaders Call for International Aid in Face of Oil Blockade
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” read more
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Artist Tai Shani Pulls Phaidon Book Deal Over Leon Black Allegations
Artist Tai Shani in 2019 (photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Stuart Wilson/Getty Images for Turner Contemporary) British artist and Turner Prize winner Tai Shani said she has withdrawn a forthcoming monograph with Phaidon, the fine art book publisher owned by Leon Black, in the wake of graphic sexual assault accusations against the private equity billionaire detailed read more
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Black & White, Ceramic, And Totally Personal: The sculptures of Katherine Morling – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Other artworks, though undoubtedly originating in autobiography, point toward more universal themes. Undercurrent, for example, depicts two rotary telephones arranged so that each acts as the base of the other. One of the telephones appears normal, ready to use, while the other has keys exploding out of the dial and letters, similarly, blasting upward from read more
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Artist Trevor Paglen Thinks Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day Looks Awfully Familiar
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 read more
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Sometimes You Just Have To Hug That Walrus: The Humorously Surreal Paintings of Bruno Pontiroli Twist Our Relationship with the Animal World – Hi-Fructose Magazine
One of the surest sources of fun in Pontiroli’s oeuvre is the massive cast of characters who make guest appearances throughout his more recent work. A depiction of Christ is usually around somewhere, typically attached to the cross of his crucifixion, but usually having a good time while flying across the sky like an airplane read more
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We Must Do More Than Simply Depict Our Lives
In the lobby of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, right before the entrance to Forms of Connection, the seventh edition of the institution’s biennial exhibition, there’s a clutch of three men facing each other, engaged in animated conversation. They don’t move or shift their focus when I approach. They won’t, because they’re life-size figures read more
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