Arts

Arts

"Before I could walk, they put a paintbrush between my toes," said Wicklow artist, Mary Duffy.

South Florida's sunny skies proved an apt backdrop this week. Across Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), key industry figures are proclaiming the clouds hanging over the art market to have lifted. "The last two and a half years were really bad. But now we've moved onto the next 30-year cycle," says Pace's president Marc Glimcher. His gallery reported sales of almost $5m across the fair's first two days, including a 2020 painting by Sam Gilliam for $1.1m.

By the time I was cast in Rock'n'Roll in 2006 I had been following Tom for years. I saw Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead when it came to London in 1967 with the wonderful Graham Crowden as the Player King. It was a big sensation. The Real Thing was a great play and Arcadia was extraordinary. Rock'n'Roll was w at the Royal Court in London by Trevor Nunn and starred Rufus Sewell as Jan, a Czech student who returns to Prague in 1968.

With it's significant Bay Area connection, The Nutcracker has been a mainstay of local dance companies for decades and decades. And why not? The ballet and its iconic score by Tchaikovsky has everything a holiday production could ask for sumptuous choreography, unforgettable music and a Christmas setting. Once again, Bay Area troupes are offering a wide array of versions of the ballet that dominates the winter dance season and which historians estimate accounts for 40 percent of ballet company box office income each year.

I work intuitively, so moving between architecture, video, gaming and music has evolved organically. I've realised that my practice is really about different forms of immersion, which is a word that gets thrown around a lot. I think of immersion as a state of perception-the point at which you forget that you are fully within the medium. The performance at the Tate Tanks was about the immersion in the present moment that you get with music.

Marisa Merz (1926-2019) was the only woman among the core group associated with the influential Arte Povera movement, whose artists made sculptures from everyday materials instead of ones typically associated with fine art. Her exhibition was scheduled to open in August at the Fridericianum, which acts as the historic anchor of Documenta during the quinquennial's run and mounts major surveys when that festival isn't taking place.

Located on an unassuming block in Miami's Little Haiti neighbourhood, the once-derelict Villa Paula houses within it some of Miami's most fascinating lore. The residence was originally built in the late 19th century for Domingo Milord, the Cuban consul at the time, and his wife Paula, an opera singer. The Milords needed a comfortable residence that contrasted Cuba's rich design and architectural history compared to Miami's at-the-time provincial aesthetics.

The museum is set to focus on what it has termed "narrative art," or work that "tells the story of a society," according to Lucas.

Earth's Symphony, on view at the Leedy Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri, through February 27, represents a pivotal moment in Rita Blitt 's decades-long dedication to exploring the expressive qualities of line, movement, and color. Her most recent paintings, created during the past three years, reflect Blitt's deepening connection with the natural world around her, building on core themes within her practice while reaching new levels of intimacy and nuance.

When I learned about Light Years, Judy Pfaff's debut exhibition at Cristin Tierney Gallery, I thought about what makes her work stand out to me. Pfaff, whose last solo show at a New York gallery was in 2019, has always assembled her sculptures out of diverse materials, from the store-bought and found to the fabricated. In Light Years, we encounter plastic flowers and fruit, a birds' and a wasps' nest, recycled plastic carpets, polyurethane foam, steel tubing, and LED and neon light.

Edvard Munch helps us cope with the good, the bad, and the ugly. (all edits Shari Flores/ Hyperallergic) It's December, the season of Spotify Wrapped and Apple Music Replay. Each year, the branded year-in-review graphics compile users' annual listening history and trends, converting them into shareable statistics that evoke the feeling of personality quiz results. We don't have the ability to track every reader's click history or favored content at Hyperallergic,

O'Keeffe's renderings of Northern New Mexico - which do not include Tewa people or culture - and the lore of her independent settler spirit are ingrained in the history of Western Modernism, and they continue to attract tourists, artists, and collectors to the region. Her self-proclaimed divinely sanctioned possession of the land is vital to consider when thinking critically about her art.

The 61st edition of the Venice Biennale, the most prestigious and oldest-running art biennial, will open 9 May next year. The main exhibition will follow the curatorial plan set out by the late Koyo Kouoh, while countries from around the world have been announcing the artists who will represent them in the national pavilions.pol To help you keep on top of the latest pavilion news, we have brought together all the participating artists and organisers announced so far. Venice Biennale: 61st International Art Exhibition, Giardini, Arsenale and various venues around Venice, 9 May-22 November 2026 Australia Artist: Khaled Sabsabi Organisers: Michael Dagostino; Creative Australia Where: Giardini

Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami Until 16 March 2026 The first major retrospective devoted to the Karachi-born, Brooklyn-based artist Hiba Schahbaz, The Garden, features works spanning 15 years of the artist's practice-including loans from private collections, work from her studio and newly commissioned pieces. It was curated by Jasmine Wahi and is anchored by the idea of the jannat, the Paradise Garden, a motif rooted in Islamic tradition and Sufi poetry.

"What's different about this year is that we are going beyond the idea of what a traditional fair is and what it could mean within the context of the Black artistic landscape," Andrieux tells The Art Newspaper.

"What's happened now is that the galleries have a cost problem, but it's not really related to their space," Rappaport says. "People aren't buying art from galleries."

"The infinity scroll is a mechanism often utilised by social media services and platforms, suggesting infinite amounts of content," read the label for Infinity (2020), an interactive installation by the Polish collective panGenerator. "Endless scrolling induces a state of permanent craving in the mind, tempting it with an endless stream of new information, which, however, it is incapable of processing. Scrolling thus becomes a purely sensory experience, inducing a hypnosis of sorts."

Until 29 March 2026 Pressure is the largest survey to date devoted to the American sculptor Richard Hunt (1935-2023) and focuses on his ambitious, material-forward practice between 1955 and 1989. It coincides with a growing interest in the Chicago artist's singular approach to dimensionality and transcendence; White Cube, which began representing his work a few weeks before his death, staged solo shows of his work in New York (in 2024) and London (last spring).

Gehry died Friday in his home in Santa Monica, California, after a brief respiratory illness, said Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP. Gehry's fascination with modern pop art led to the creation of some of the most striking buildings ever constructed and brought him a measure of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect. Among his many masterpieces are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; and the DZ Bank Building in Berlin, Germany.

an evening dedicated to arts and culture in the SoFA district and surrounding areas. This free, all-ages event invites everyone to explore galleries, museums, and creative spaces from 5 to 9 PM, fostering connections among artists, locals, and visitors. With its roots in the vibrant SoFA neighborhood, the gathering extends to spots like the Historic District and Martha Gardens, offering a chance to wander through diverse venues and discover the city's artistic pulse.