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Watermill Center Appoints Charles Chemin Artistic Director The Watermill Center in Water Mill, New York, has named Charles Chemin as its new artistic director. The Paris-born Chemin since 2020 has served as artistic director of the center’s International Summer Program. He is a protégé and longtime collaborator of director and playwright

Watermill Center Appoints Charles Chemin Artistic Director

The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects In the age of the internet, we’re fortunate to have virtual access to museum collections around the world, thanks to objects in the public domain and programs like The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative. Through a searchable digital catalogue, visitors to the mus

The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects

Screen Life di Flavio de Marco: la pittura come finzione speculativa Benché di primo acchito pittura e immagine digitale sembrino afferire a due dimensioni antitetiche, la prima connessa ai tempi lunghi del lavoro manuale, alla fisicità dei materiali e a una secolare genealogia stilistica e iconografica che spesso si vuole esangue, la seconda alla

Screen Life di Flavio de Marco: la pittura come finzione speculativa

Immagini nello spazio: Nataly Maier alla Fondazione Sabe per l’arte L’ingannevole equivalenza visiva tra un’immagine fotografica e il frammento di realtà in essa immortalato si fonda su una serie di riduzioni successive: il volume degli oggetti collassa sulla superficie del negativo, la materia si dissolve in traccia ottica e la profondità spazia

Immagini nello spazio: Nataly Maier alla Fondazione Sabe per l’arte

Where Did the IMLS’s Funding for Museums and Libraries Go? Into Trump’s ‘Freedom Truck’ Road Show, It Seems  Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s capital, it could be on a tractor trailer in, say, Ft. Campbe

Where Did the IMLS’s Funding for Museums and Libraries Go? Into Trump’s ‘Freedom Truck’ Road Show, It Seems 

An Overfilled Guggenheim Retrospective Dulls Carol Bove’s Brilliance There was a moment in the Guggenheim’s sprawling new Carol Bove exhibition when the entire show began to make sense to me. It was when I chanced upon “10 Hours” (2019). Located on the museum’s third ramp, it consists of a hollow, crimped and bent rectangular tube, painted banana

An Overfilled Guggenheim Retrospective Dulls Carol Bove’s Brilliance

abin design studio’s ‘unscripted pavilion’ is an ethereal grid in mumbai drawing from the hectic streetscape of mumbai   The Unscripted Pavilion by Abin Design Studio stands as a temporary structure shaped by Mumbai‘s layered and unpredictable character. Conceived as a built response to Mumbai’s dense urban fabric, the pavilion translates the shifting

abin design studio’s ‘unscripted pavilion’ is an ethereal grid in mumbai

In Cardboard and Gold, Narsiso Martinez Highlights the Workers of American Agriculture Americans are uniquely disconnected from our food. More than 10 percent of the working population is employed in agricultural sectors, but it’s rare for the average person to grapple with—let alone witness—the number of people involved in growing, harvesting, packaging, and ultim

In Cardboard and Gold, Narsiso Martinez Highlights the Workers of American Agriculture

Water Safety at Guatemala’s Maya City of Ucanal Analyzed MONTREAL, CANADA—According to a statement released by the University of Montreal, recent analysis of the water system at the Maya city of Ucanal in northern Guatemala determined that it was effective at controlling visible pollutants and bacteria, but was contaminated by mercury,

Water Safety at Guatemala’s Maya City of Ucanal Analyzed

Redefining Age It is estimated that by 2030, 1 in 6 people worldwide will be over 60. Meanwhile, 1 in ten children in the UK are now expected to live beyond 100. Yet, as people globally are living longer, many face health and social inequalities that impact later life. A new exhibition at Wellc

Redefining Age

compostable bicycle seat takes shape as mycelium grows around the wooden saddle Mycelium shapes compostable wooden bicycle seat   Networks of mycelium grow and form the shape of the compostable bicycle seat with a wooden saddle. Named Myco Seat by Ludwig Eder, the biomaterial is seen growing out of the holes from under the saddle, continuing its growth and s

compostable bicycle seat takes shape as mycelium grows around the wooden saddle

Live Wires: Sheila Hicks e Paolo Icaro in dialogo alla Galleria Massimo Minini Alla Galleria Massimo Minini l’incontro tra Sheila Hicks e Paolo Icaro non è un semplice dialogo tra due pratiche all’apparenza contrastanti, ma un campo di giocosa tensione. Da un lato la materia nuda, opaca, essenziale di Icaro; dall’altro le vibrazioni cromatiche di Hicks. La

Live Wires: Sheila Hicks e Paolo Icaro in dialogo alla Galleria Massimo Minini

Explore The Met’s Collection in 3D From Your Couch A voluptuous Neolithic marble figurine, a model Nayarit home from ancient Mesoamerica, Claude Monet's 1891 painting "Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun)" — these are among the items in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection that are now available to the public as hi

Explore The Met’s Collection in 3D From Your Couch

thousands of glass beads form delicate blossoms that never wilt in henri purnell’s sculptures Henri Purnell crafts delicate blooms out of glass beads   Thousands of tiny glass beads come together to form the intricate floral sculptures of musician and maker Henri Purnell. Working bead by bead, the artist recreates delicate blossoms that echo the organic irregularities of

thousands of glass beads form delicate blossoms that never wilt in henri purnell’s sculptures

Collective Empowerment The Black Arts Movement emerged as a profound cultural awakening and radical reimagining of representation, galvanised by mid-20th century civil rights struggles and sustained by a belief in art’s transformative power. Writers, musicians, visual artists and performers sought not

Collective Empowerment

Rediscover a Rembrandt After More than Six Decades in Hiding In 1898, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum staged an exhibition of paintings by renowned Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt (1606-1669). Included in this show was a 23-by-19-inch oil painting titled “Vision of Zacharias in the Temple,” which was completed in 1633, relatively early in t

Rediscover a Rembrandt After More than Six Decades in Hiding

Northern star Parterre Box previews an upcoming performance of Hercules with Ann Hallenberg in some very unique Baroque repertoire.

Northern star

‘ridiculously good-looking saunas’ showcases 36 design-led thermal retreats worldwide gestalten’s book charts the global rise of design-led saunas   Ridiculously Good-Looking Saunas, published by gestalten, a publication edited with sauna designer and maker Christopher Selman, documents the growing architectural and cultural revival of the thermal retreats. The 25

‘ridiculously good-looking saunas’ showcases 36 design-led thermal retreats worldwide

Error 404: Architectural Memory in the Age of Algorithms Array

Error 404: Architectural Memory in the Age of Algorithms

Golestan Palace, Tehran’s Only UNESCO World Heritage Site, Damaged in US-Israeli Airstrikes US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran have severely damaged Tehran’s four-hundred-year-old Golestan Palace, according to reports first released by Iran’s ISNA and Mehr news agencies. Photos of the Safavid-era palace, the Iranian capital’s only UNESCO-listed site, showed glass and debris

Golestan Palace, Tehran’s Only UNESCO World Heritage Site, Damaged in US-Israeli Airstrikes

Booooooom Shop: Tomorrow’s Talent 5 Book Array

Booooooom Shop: Tomorrow’s Talent 5 Book

First Impressions From the 2026 Whitney Biennial The Whitney Biennial bills itself as the pulse-check of what American art looks like now. This year’s edition, curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, with Beatriz Cifuentes and Carina Martinez, consists of the work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives. It's themeless,

First Impressions From the 2026 Whitney Biennial

A favorite bass performance from CKurwenal I wanted to make sure Paata Burchuladze gets celebrated in this series.

A favorite bass performance from CKurwenal

The Power of Listening: How Documentary Shapes Storytelling  In an era dominated by constant scroll and shrinking attention spans, documentary has emerged as one of the most vital languages in contemporary culture. From the political urgency of Navalny to the cultural resonance of Beckham and the environmental meditation of David Attenboro

The Power of Listening: How Documentary Shapes Storytelling 

Dive into Wool Creature Lab’s World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs 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, s

Dive into Wool Creature Lab’s World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs

motion-activated IKEA nightlight sticks to any surface and glows without plugging in Meet ANKARLÄGG, an LED nightlight with sensor by IKEA   IKEA releases ANKARLÄGG, an LED nightlight with a sensor that attaches to any surface and glows without plugging in. Using two AAA batteries, the lightbulb-shaped device has no wires, no plugs, or no need for a mains connect

motion-activated IKEA nightlight sticks to any surface and glows without plugging in

Illustrator Spotlight: Starrenco Costanza Starrabba aka Starrenco                                                 Starrenco on Instagram

Illustrator Spotlight: Starrenco

A short guide to the hidden meanings in great paintings An A to C extract from the glossary of Painted Mysteries, which deciphers common motifs and symbols in famous works

A short guide to the hidden meanings in great paintings

Radioposter Launches Paper-fi: Analog Books with Synchronized 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 d

Radioposter Launches Paper-fi: Analog Books with Synchronized Soundtracks

School of Visual Arts Shutters Its Curatorial Practice MA Program After 14 years, the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan will terminate its master of arts degree in curatorial practice when program founder and chair Steven Henry Madoff retires in May 2027. The two-year program, which enrolled 14 first-year students last fall, is no longer

School of Visual Arts Shutters Its Curatorial Practice MA Program