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Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room, The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013)
Come and have a go if you think you’re art enough
From Beuys to Cattelan, this essay explores why the question “Is it art?” says less about the artwork than about our need for certainty
Michael Joo's Concatenations (1991/2026) is a large-scale mixed-media installation measuring 513.1 × 412.8 × 289.6 cm (202 × 162½ × 114 in). Characteristic of Joo's interdisciplinary practice, the work brings together diverse materials and conceptual references to explore connections between nature, culture, history, and systems of knowledge. Courtesy of the artist and Kukje Gallery. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson
Directionless and the art of uncertainty
At Hauser & Wirth Menorca, Rashid Johnson explores disorientation as a creative force in contemporary life
Installation view from the “Art of Manga” exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, featuring works from Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure series. The exhibition showcases hundreds of original drawings and large-scale installations by major Japanese manga artists from the 1970s to the present, including Eiichiro Oda (One Piece), Junji Ito, and Tite Kubo (Bleach). Araki’s featured artwork includes life-sized characters and their Stands, designed to align with viewers’ eye levels for an immersive experience, highlighting manga as a recognized art form in a museum setting. Photo: © İdil Burkutoğlu
Hirohiko Araki and color without rules
Rethinking identity, composition, and expression in "JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure"
Entangled roots and floating forms, solo exhibition, 2026. Courtesy of the artist
Yilin Rebecca Sun on Vessel
The artist and curator reflects on clay, collaboration, and the connections that shape our shared future
The Nukus Museum of Art, officially known as the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitsky, Uzbekistan
The Savitsky State Museum of Art
Art, resistance, and cultural memory in the heart of the desert
The bottom tier depicts gods seated on their respective vahanas, while the upper tier features a band of musicians playing instruments, Virupaksha Temple, Hampi, India
The ceiling murals of Virupaksha Temple
How myth, kingship, and devotion were immortalized in Hampi’s 16th-century temple art
Sustainability Award for my final exhibition, photo by Denisa Ilie, featuring indigo-dyed, upcycled textile collections alongside Jade Guiraud’s guidebook Footprints in the Fells and Louise Keddy’s steel structures
The contemporary art market as oligopoly
Concentration, gatekeeping, and institutional power leave most artists subsidizing a system that rewards only a select few
Kim Nam-joon, known professionally as RM, is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is the leader of South Korean boy band BTS, under Big Hit Music
Kim Nam-joon and the art of attention
A transnational curatorial vision bridging Korean and Western art through contemplation, theory, and cultural dialogue
Jean-Marie Appriou (born 1986 in Brest, France) is a French sculptor whose work combines mythology, symbolism, and material transformation. He lives and works in Paris, portrayed by Claire Dorn
Jean-Marie Appriou and the art of passage
From Dante and ancient Egypt to fire and bronze, the artist reflects on sculpture as a threshold between worlds
Installation view of ID.exe / the human patch, featuring the artwork Habitat no. 6 (2025, Diasec print, 140 × 80 cm, Ed. 3+1, solo exhibition by Ecem Dilan Köse, Art On Istanbul, 2025. Photo © Kayhan Kaygusuz, courtesy of the artist and Art On Istanbul
Ecem Dilan Köse: architectures of emergence
Digital environments, artificial life, and the ethics of perception
The Trustees in the Temporary Elgin Room, 1819, by Archibald Archer, depicts the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum surrounded by museum staff, a trustee, and visitors
Repatriation and the politics of cultural belonging
Colonial legacies, cultural justice, and the future of global heritage
An auctioneer leads bidding during Hessink’s landmark contemporary art sale in Tbilisi, an event that marked a major turning point in the international recognition of Georgian modern and contemporary art, Georgia
Tbilisi’s defining art market moment
Georgia’s first international contemporary art auction and the emergence of a new global cultural market
Rebecca Horn, a German artist (1944–2024), created Unicorn, a seminal body-based work in 1970
Embodied practices in contemporary art
How living between London and Paris reshaped my understanding of art, fashion, and embodied expression
Rafael Luis Armengol Machí "Pebrot partit" (Catalan for "Split Pepper") (1985) by the Oil on canvas, presented as a diptych (two panels). 162 x 260 cm (approximately 63.8 x 102.4 inches). Contemporary art collection at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Alicante (MACA) in Alicante, Spain
Travels in Hyperreality at MACA
Spanish modern art, intensified perception, and the museum as a site where representation exceeds the real
Visual documentation of EMBERS / BRACI, a collaborative 2026 performance-installation by Nikhil Chopra and Uriel Barthélémi at Galleria Continua. Courtesy of the artists and Galleria Continua. © Francesco Raco
Embers / Braci: between fire and memory
Nikhil Chopra and Uriel Barthélémi explore rhythm, fragility, and endurance
Diana and Callisto (1637-1638) by Rubens
The power of purity
Artists’ fascination with virginity
Cover of the book Michelangelo and the dream of the Sistine Chapel co-authored by Valentina Ansuini and Jade Bajeot and Illustrated by Sabrina Gabrielli
Michelangelo and the Dream of the Sistine
An illustrated children’s book about Michelangelo and his challenging work in the Sistine Chapel
Artist Ellsworth Kelly recalls his first encounter with abstraction and reflects on how his decades-long fascination with line, form, and color shaped both his paintings and his creative process. This video was filmed shortly before his passing in 2015 by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Ellsworth Kelly: monumental space
Shaping perception and movement through color, form, and scale
A watch makes time look eternal, circular, divorces time from the body and makes it completely external and putatively objective
"Four Twenty PM" at the National Gallery of Thailand
A.T. Apichart makes time look and feel benign, so that it doesn’t
Kristian Zara, Visual Meditation, ink on paper, 2022
The opening thought
On the transformative journey of thought in the creative process
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist
Who draws the line?
Artistic freedom, legal boundaries, and the ethics of offense
Jeff Koons: Jim Beam – J.B. Turner Train (1986) Courtesy of the artist/Gagosian
The future isn’t what it was
How markets, machines, and accelerated taste have shattered the old promises of contemporary art
The Şanlıurfa Museum, which includes both the Archaeology and Mosaic Museums, is located in the southeastern Turkish city of Şanlıurfa (historically known as Edessa). The museum houses important archaeological remains from Şanlıurfa itself, as well as from nearby ancient sites such as Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, and Harran, Türkiye
Urfa man: sentinel of the sacred past
Spiritual power of ancient art in the gaze of humanity’s oldest watcher
Digital art by Kerwin Williamson
The art of Kendell Kerwin in a distracted age
A New York artist reclaiming attention, humanity, and depth in a world where images disappear in seconds
An artist paints a wall while working on the street
Art as placing, displacing, transforming
Process, perception, and the artist within the relational field
Anselm Kiefer, Walhalla, 2016, Almost redolent of the chaotic, despairing images of Bosch, Kiefer offers a rather terrifying and apocalyptic view of where one might live. For some of course, this vision is a reality on our world right now. Photo © White Cube/Courtesy the artists 2016
Art, nature, and the post-human condition
The tension between traditional landscape art and the rise of artificial aesthetics
Agostino De Romanis, Shadows of Day and Night, oil on relined paper, 250 x 130 cm, 2003
De Romanis, the ‘symbolic’ works
The primeval appeal of the Orient
Casa Galleria in Italy brings Austin Young’s work into the intimacy of the home, where art is not simply viewed but lived with over time
The home as gallery: a new art experience
Casa Galleria and the shift from viewing art to living with it
The Shigir Idol on display at the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum, Russia — Standing over five meters tall in its original form, this ancient sculpture continues to awe with its mysterious carvings
The Shigir idol: humanity’s oldest wooden sculpture
A 12,000-year-old monument revealing our earliest spiritual expressions and the timeless urge to seek meaning beyond the visibl
Simone Ferrero, The Whispering Abyss, 80.2 x 205.3 cm, 2024
Interview with Simone Ferrero
Crossing the visible: the mosaic as an inner threshold
Gottfried Eisenberger (pictured right), World Art Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Gottfried Eisenberger on World Art Dubai’s next phase
The fair’s curator reflects on scale, strategy, and the growing global reach of emerging artists
Antony Gormley Another Place, 1997, Antony Gormley’s Another Place features 100 cast-iron figures facing the sea along Crosby Beach, exploring humanity’s relationship with nature, time, solitude, and existence. Each life-sized figure, modelled on Gormley’s own body, stands motionless against shifting tides and weather, symbolizing reflection, resilience, and the universal human search for meaning and connection
Fishing with dynamite: the new monumentality
Some thoughts on the inequality of means for contemporary artists
Gesti Scolpiti at the Teatro Antico di Taormina in Taormina, Italy transforms ancient stone into a dialogue between memory, gesture, and contemporary resistance
Jago at the ancient theatre of Taormina
In Gesti Scolpiti, the Italian sculptor transforms marble and bronze into a meditation on gesture, memory, and visibility
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Events in Art

Lara Merrett, Ripple (detail), 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf
Stilling
20 Aug — 12 Sep 2026 at Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney, Australia
Carrie Yamaoka, 68 by 12 (green) redux (detail), 2009/2025. Courtesy of Hamburger Kunsthalle
Carrie Yamaoka's exhibition
21 Aug 2026 — 10 Jan 2027 at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany
Thomas Demand, Ruine (detail). Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery / Sprüth Magers / Esther Schipper, Berlin / Taka Ishii Gallery © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Thomas Demand: the stuttering of history
22 Aug — 1 Nov 2026 at the Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ashley Garrett, Fireweed (detail), 2025. Courtesy of David B. Smith Gallery
The soaring roar
22 Aug — 26 Sep 2026 at the David B. Smith in Denver, United States
Michael Mazur, Wakeby evening memory (detail), 1985. Courtesy of the Schoolhouse Gallery
Wakeby island
24 — 11 Aug 2026 at The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, United States
Emma Itzstein, Voices of children in the summer sky (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Olsen Gallery
Excursions outside the orangery
26 Aug — 19 Sep 2026 at the Olsen Gallery in Sydney, Australia
Gregory Hodge, Overgrowth (detail), 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf
Shimmer
27 Aug — 26 Sep 2026 at Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney, Australia
Melike Kara, New mornings (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Carl Kostyál
All that grows
28 Aug — 13 Sep 2026 at the Carl Kostyál Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Billy Schenck, Gratuitous violence (detail). Courtesy of JoAnne Artman Gallery
Technicolor west
1 Sep — 31 Oct 2026 at the JoAnne Artman Gallery in Laguna Beach, United States
Lis Sam, Shadow (detail), 2025. Courtesy of Fremin Gallery
Metamorphosis
1 Sep — 31 Oct 2026 at the Fremin Gallery in New York, United States
Benji Reid, Light bike (detail), 2021. Courtesy of October Gallery
Zana Masombuka. Spotlight: Benji Reid
3 Sep — 3 Oct 2026 at the October Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Quentin James McCaffrey, Triptych with flowers and view (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery
Quentin James McCaffrey's exhibition
3 Sep — 3 Oct 2026 at the Alison Jacques Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Richie Wilde López, Cuando el mar se acercó (detail). Courtesy of Paradigm Gallery + Studio
Tending to clouds
4 — 27 Sep 2026 at the Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia, United States
Ali Cherri, still from The sentinel (detail), 2026. Courtesy the artist and Almine Rech Gallery
Soul witness
5 Sep 2026 — 4 Jan 2027 at WIELS in Brussels, Belgium
Huang Chih-Cheng & Hao, Polishing (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Fragment Gallery
Stalker
5 — 26 Sep 2026 at the Fragment Gallery in New York, United States
Ellen Bradshaw, Spring fever, 10th Ave and 25th Sta (detail). Courtesy of Pleiades Gallery
Every street has a story
8 Sep — 3 Oct 2026 at the Pleiades Gallery in New York, United States
Heather Lenz, Night water 6, eclipse (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Gallery Naga
Echoes of place
8 Sep — 3 Oct 2026 at the Gallery Naga in Boston, United States
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