Tag: The Art Field
Vital Mud: the Hypothesis that life began in clay
Hiske Altena turns doubt into a method and curiosity into a form of knowledge. A l scientific theory about how everything around us is interconnected.
SWAB Barcelona 2026 builds a fair from scaffolding, bread and thermal paper
Reusable timber and edible works: SWAB Barcelona 2026 as a fair assembled, eaten and taken apart
A Modigliani at $100 million and a box of flashlights on Bantayan
From the Grand Palais, where 211 galleries showed Warhol, Duchamp and Holzer, to the island where the fellowship funded by one of the fair’s partners buys diving lamps
Lorenza Longhi at Centro Pecci: Villa Delizia, fabric, display and error
Lorenza Longhi’s first institutional solo show in Italy: ten canvases in Prato district fabric, screenprinting and flocking, the museum’s sofas dressed and the solar tubes reopened
Art Basel Paris 2026: a fifth edition read through its materials
From tar to recycled X-ray silver: how 211 Art Basel Paris exhibitors work their materials, October 23 to 25
Art Basel Paris 2026: Alice Diop’s Geste de Consolation brings the Public Program to Palais d’Iéna
At Miu Miu’s Geste de Consolation, Alice Diop turns spectatorship into part of Palais d’Iéna’s architecture, making visitors conscious of how they look, where they sit, and how they are...
A UFO Lands in Brooklyn – only the dent survives
Tom Friedman turns disposable cookware into permanent steel figures, while a companion show on the Lower East Side treats thirty-six years of studio debris as the work
Saliva: few drops on a classical portrait — Naruki Kukita and the Bukkake series
From a Bushwick studio the painter works in oil and pre-Impressionist layers, adds the anime figure last, and teaches in a dojo where students learn the form before breaking it
Mushrooms framed by steel, concrete, and digital code: Zheng Mahler’s Clouds
Built from fungi, fog, datasets, and machine learning, Zheng Mahler's Mushroom Clouds asks what happens when an exhibition becomes a living system
Yvon Lambert, Paris. On artistic recurrences
Yvon Lamberts returns to Marais, this time not as an art dealer but as a bookseller and modern publisher. «I want to do something more humanistic»
About Netsuke – carved in ivory or wood, hidden in kimonos
Netsuke are carved counterweights, worn at the waist to balance a pouch tied to a kimono sash. Merchants wore them against silk for decades, and the friction finished the carving
Why are you always somewhere else? Xevi Solà, some paintings
From fashion photography to Lucian Freud, by way of Jonh Cheever, Catalan painter Xevi Solà explains how he builds characters who are always somewhere else
How CHART 2026 is redefining the art fair model: in conversation with Julie Quottrup Silbermann
Lowering the threshold without lowering artistic ambition: CHART Art Fair’s approach to new collectors, public engagement and contemporary art
The Bauhaus produced its own image with the same method it used for chairs
Photography arrives late at the Bauhaus and becomes the language through which the school builds and circulates its own image — the book New Woman, New Vision
350 species in one seagrass meadow: how One Ocean Foundation operates
From the Caprera Canyon to Posidonia restoration in Cala di Volpe, One Ocean Foundation builds infrastructure for marine science — the exhibition As Above, So Below in Venice
Rupture Venice: from Giudecca to Santa Croce, a bookstore becomes a publishing platform
Alexandre Sap's Rupture relocates to Venice's museum district, expanding its activities through publishing, exhibitions and international collaborations while continuing to treat books as objects of research rather than retail
Rupture Paris and Marseille: books, architecture and independent publishing between two cities
Rupture started a renovation that uncovered the original structure of Le Corbusier’s idea – they decided to use only glass, cement, and ceramic materials for the store
Closeness is a fiction: Marie Tomanova shoots herself daily for a year
Three Empty Weeks in July – at Harkawik, New York, through July 11, 2026: a durational body of work shot on a Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6 implicates the viewer in...
Art Basel 2026: the market wants the first look back
From digital drift to material presence. How everyday matter became contemporary meaning. Art Basel Paris: a new stability
Diagrams: there is no such thing as an innocent map
From W.E.B. Du Bois to algorithmic dashboards, diagrams have long shaped the way societies classify knowledge, produce consensus, and visualize power. Cornelia Mattiacci and Giulio Margheri discuss the research developed...
Carlos Garaicoa and the carnivorous plants eating Havana, at the St. Regis Rome
Since 2018 Galleria Continua has run a space inside the hotel in Via Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, where I giardini di Piranesi gathered drawings, watercolours and the installation Contrapeso
Motors, fish and minor disasters: Yuko Mohri scales technology
From feather dusters to magnetic fields, Yuko Mohri rewires everyday objects into unstable systems where error generates knowledge and technology returns to human scale
From aero politics to salt architecture: Tomás Saraceno
In Salinas Grandes, El Santuario del Agua by Tomás Saraceno reimagines land art as a community-owned project rooted in water, salt, and Indigenous knowledge
Hannah Levy: why a prehistoric crab makes sense in her sculpture
With Blue Blooded at Museo Nivola, Hannah Levy turns the horseshoe crab — harvested for modern medicine since before memory — into the most coherent subject she has ever chosen
Roe Ethridge and the failure of good taste: images that refuse to behave
“The exhaustion of my eyes by Instagram.” Presenting Rude in the Good Way, Roe Ethridge traces two decades of work, from suburban images to hybrid compositions: fashion and visual culture
What you want from your body? Antony Gormley, iron and crawling
An interview with Antony Gormley. In What Holds Us, he stages a physical encounter with sculpture:“to become whole we have to be held. A tree has to be held in...
Chiara Yiontis draws circles, no sketch no plan
Each work is built through repetition: circles drawn one by one without sketch, where proximity creates structure and a single encounter can redirect a life. Chiara Yiontis for Lampoon MECCANO
Martin Margiela at the Kudan House: between the historic cedar and the void
Martin Margiela marks his first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan by treating a 1927 heritage residence as a site of memory and disappearance – a graft of Spanish Colonial Revival...
Goshka Macuga: when systems work too well power takes over
“Growing up with nothing trained me to build everything” – Goshka Macuga on memory, archives, AI, and why systems become dangerous when efficiency starts to override human truth
CAN Art Fair Madrid at ten: from urban art to a broader contemporary field
At Matadero, over 50 galleries and new sections such as CAN Design marked a shift from street-rooted practices toward a cross-disciplinary programme spanning art, design, and architecture
Jamie Diamond stages fictional families to challenge photographic truth
From Craigslist casting to Japan’s rental relationship services, Jamie Diamond hires strangers to stage families and paid interactions, documenting constructed intimacy
Tadashi Kawamata for Maison Ruinart: shaping reclaimed wood in the vineyards of Champagne
Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata brings three permanent installations in salvaged wood to Maison Ruinart's estate in Reims, as part of the Conversations with Nature curatorial programme
Dries Van Noten on his foundation in Venice and The Only True Protest Is Beauty
A conversation on planning with water in mind at Fondazione Dries Van Noten as The Only True Protest Is Beauty maps 200+ works across 20 rooms at Palazzo Pisani Moretta—maintenance...
Funk Magazine, Köln: «We had planned for it to be a pop up in the initial plan»
Funk states that magazines published through independent means have a sustainable value to it – becoming pieces that can be archived by its owners
Stop Looking at Images: Photography Begins with Light, Time and Space
Bigaignon in collaboration with Rhinoceros stage a three-act project that rejects visual consumption, dismantles exhibition habits, and reframes photography as structure rather than image
We’re all eating from the same trash can: Jordan Sullivan and the Sick America
“Capitalism cultivates addiction and delirium – our souls were sold long ago.” A conversation with the painter Jordan Sullivan on marginal life and contemporary American experience
Holy water in plastic bottles: Crossover, Anastasia Sosunova and the crisis of belonging
A mass-produced white sock becomes a relic after touching Orthodox martyrs: artist Anastasia Sosunova and curator Chiara Nuzzi discuss fake faith and belief systems in Crossover at Fondazione ICA Milano
Fuorisalone and digital as a strategy: in conversation with creative director Paolo Casati
Studiolabo for Fuorisalone and Brera Design District: the e-revolution that has changed the perception of Italian design in Milan
New York, no filter, Daniel Arnold after Instagram: You Are What You Do
Over the last two decades, American photographer Daniel Arnold has recorded moments of humanity on New York streets. His new book: You Are What You Do
OGR Torino: how a former railway depot became a center for art and innovation
OGR - the former Officine Grandi Riparazioni of Turin — a 35,000-square-metre industrial complex restored by Fondazione CRT — artistic experimentation and technological innovation
Mary Kelly: seventy years of global conflict through domestic life
On show at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Mary Kelly uses dryer lint, letters, and press fragments to trace how decades of global conflict leave their mark on the ordinary aspects of...
Amanda Wall turns to the bed—not for rest, but for resistance
In an era where everything digital dissolves into vapour, Amanda Wall insists on stains, scars, and brushstrokes that mark time and presence—We're leaving the rug, this is our life
Juergen Teller shapes Onassis Ready into a living exhibition: You are invited
Juergen Teller arrives in Athens not in a white cube: You are invited explores intimacy, archival work and new series within the unpolished framework of Onassis Ready, a former factory...
MASA Gallery, Mexico City: Brian Thoreen presents Non-Zero-Sum – collectible design
Founded in 2019 by Brian Thoreen, Age Salajoe and Hector Eraswe as a nomadic gallery – now a permanent space in the house that was formerly the residence of Federico...
A Journey Through Contemporary Art and Architecture on the French Riviera
At Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Design Converges with Art and Architecture Saint-Paul-de-Vence: A Historic Village Meets Contemporary Art Situated in the south of France, Fondation CAB opened its second location in...
Perfection Kills the Person: Inside Hart Lëshkina’s Boy World Effigy II
In the multichannel installation at O–Overgaden, a historic Danish boys’ choir becomes a living metaphor for modern control. Boy World Effigy II by Hart Lëshkina dissects harmony, and the death...
