Frank Gehry, Architect Who Redefined Form, Dies at 96
Frank Gehry, the pioneering American architect celebrated for his avant-garde designs, died at 96 at his Santa Monica home following a brief respiratory illness. He rose to global prominence with the 1997 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a titanium-clad masterpiece that transformed both contemporary architecture and the industrial Spanish city itself. Born in Toronto in 1929, Frank […]
Chanel and PSA Launch Espace Gabrielle Chanel Library in Shanghai
Chanel and Shanghai’s Power Station of Art have opened Espace Gabrielle Chanel, mainland China’s first public library dedicated to contemporary art and design. The space offers more than 10,000 books and media spanning art, design, architecture, culture, and the social sciences, with a focus on cross-disciplinary research and global-local exchange. Designed by Japanese architect Kazunari […]
Art Basel Miami Beach 2025: Ritual in Motion, Market in Play
At Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, Latin American artists are not peripheral, they are decisive. Artists from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Panama use the fair to sharpen cultural reference rather than neutralize it. What connects these practices is intent, a refusal to treat heritage as aesthetic shorthand or settled history. The fair itself is large […]
Woody De Othello: coming forth by day at Pérez Art Museum Miami
Woody De Othello returns to Miami with a museum exhibition that traces the links between body, material, ancestry, and spirit. coming forth by day, on view at Pérez Art Museum Miami, brings together new ceramics, wooden sculptures, tiled wall works, and a monumental bronze piece. Raised in North Miami Beach in a Haitian immigrant household, […]
The 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain
Since 2007, the National Indigenous Art Triennial has been a defining event in Australia, curated by First Nations leaders around a unifying theme. The fifth edition, led by Tony Albert and titled After the Rain, centers on rebirth, regeneration, and intergenerational legacy, holding optimism and destruction in tension. Albert’s starting point was the discovery of […]
Tony Cragg at Lisson Gallery: Twisting, Flowing, Evolving Forms
Tony Cragg’s Lisson Gallery exhibition in London presents abstracted, upright forms that balance solidity and air, crafted in bronze, stainless steel, and weathered Corten. These sculptures convey movement and invite engagement, while monumental outdoor works and a rotating bronze centerpiece showcase Cragg’s enduring exploration of material expression. The latest Incident sculptures and related works resemble […]
Alma Allen to Represent the US at Venice Biennale 2026
Alma Allen, a Utah-born sculptor based in Mexico, has been selected to represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Featuring around 30 sculptures and site-responsive works, Alma Allen: Call Me the Breeze will be curated by Jeffrey Uslip and commissioned by Jenni Pardo of the American Arts Conservancy. The exhibition will examine “elevation” […]
London Art Fair Unveils Its 2026 Program
London Art Fair (LAF) returns for its 38th edition this January with a curated mix of Modern and Contemporary galleries from the UK and abroad. Its curated sections spotlight the next wave of artists and gallerists from around the world. Zarastro Art will make its LAF debut in Encounters. As the Fair’s platform for emerging […]
Frida Kahlo’s El sueño (La cama) Sets Historic Record
Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self-portrait sold for $54.7 million at Sotheby’s New York, setting a record for the artist and for any woman artist. The work shows her asleep in a canopy bed under a papier mâché skeleton, blending Mexican folkloric motifs with European surrealism. The sale wrapped in four minutes of aggressive bidding and pushed […]
Jeff Koons: Porcelain Series at Gagosian
Jeff Koons’ Porcelain Series at Gagosian arrives seven years after his last New York solo show and well past his Gazing Ball experiments from 2013. Rather than push further, the new work circles back to familiar ground, classical mythology, eroticized bodies, and everyday objects recast as monumental. The “Banality” sculptures of the late 1980s were […]