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A recent study has concluded that the Xalet del Catllaràs in La Pobla de Lillet (Berguedà) was designed by Antoni Gaudí. The findings attribute the original project to the celebrated Catalan architect, identifying distinctive methodologies and construction techniques that align closely with his known work. Research confirms Gaudí as author of the project The investigation was commissioned from architect Galdric Santana, director of the Gaudí Chair at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and current commissioner of the Gaudí Year commemorations. His study concludes that Gaudí was indeed the author of the original design for the Xalet del Catllaràs.

From brilliant new voices to seasoned icons, many of the past year's breakout works are by Black authors. In June, Great Black Hope, a coming-of-age story reckoning with privilege and belonging, made first-time author Rob Franklin a household name. And in July, Stephanie Wambugu's gorgeous debut novel Lonely Crowds, which explores the intimacy and frustration in the relationship between two lifelong friends, climbed bestseller lists.

Even though most of us are eager for spring here in the Northern Hemisphere, we're happy to linger in winter a little while longer to take in Robinsson Cravents ' new project. The Colombia-based designer and illustrator recently released a pair of hand-drawn digital landscapes that take a bird's-eye view of Yosemite National Park. Starting with a wide aerial shot of coniferous trees, the films then journey down a stream up to a waterfall, capturing the majestic scenery with grainy, tactile detail.

After more than 12 years at the reins, Jeffrey Rosen is out as director of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, sparking accusations that President Donald Trump is once again seeking to control a U.S. cultural institution. Rosen, age 61, is a renowned legal scholar, and had played a key role in the museum's preparations for America 250, the national celebration of the semiquincentennial of the founding of the U.S.

The only thing most people know about epiphytes, if they know about them at all, is that they're rootless. That's not quite true - they develop highly specialized root systems adapted to wherever they land. In Epiphytic Elucidations at Patel Brown Gallery, Calgary-based artist Marigold Santos takes this fact as more than a metaphor. The exhibition uses epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants without harming them - as a framework for the expansive ways diasporas form through material labor.

It's not that advertising campaigns are never announced, but when they are, it's usually in advertising trade magazines, and generally by the agency that did the work. The client doesn't normally issue a press release that essentially says, "We are putting up some posters." Yet that is exactly what the Tate has done, issuing a general announcement that it will run an advertising campaign for its upcoming Tracey Emin exhibition.

The exhibition centers the visibility, agency, and radical joy of Black women, celebrating love as a generative force-of liberation, self-definition, and community. Through richly textured compositions and her iconic rhinestone-studded surfaces, Thomas depicts her subjects-friends, family, lovers, and cultural figures-with a confidence and sensuality that reclaims spaces where Black women have been historically overlooked or misrepresented. With this exhibition, she becomes the first African-American artist to receive a major solo presentation at the Grand Palais.

The art world has a real issue with making things overly conceptual, too complicated and using wanky jargon, says Trackie McLeod. It alienates people. So, for his latest show, Utopia, the 32-year-old Glaswegian has decided to create something more welcoming and familiar: a pub. Custom-built from scratch, the exhibition is a fully functioning boozer. McLeod will pull pints for punters, there's a dartboard where you can take aim at images of Thatcher or Trump,

"This occupation has had an incalculable impact on every single person here and the repercussions will be ongoing for a long time. Besides the separation of families, the legal battles to repatriate them and the persecution and arrest of constitutional observers, there will be ongoing massive economic effects for families trying to make rent, immigrant-run businesses who were forced to close and to the city as a whole."

Nearly 300 galleries will take part in this year's edition of Art Basel, when the fair returns to the Swiss city where it all began. The world's most prestigious art fair will feature 290 exhibitors from 42 countries and territories, organisers say, including 41 first-time exhibitors representing a wider footprint than previous editions, with participating dealers hailing from the Ivory Coast to Saudi Arabia.

Known most for her large-scale artworks created from vast, intricate networks of thread, she developed her unique practice to make tangible the endless speculative configurations of human connections - something to be experienced rather than defined. But by asking her to describe her new exhibition, Threads of Life at the Hayward Gallery, I'm dragging her back into a reductive world of language. "If I wanted to express myself in words, if I could explain in words, I'd rather write," she says. "So I want to build visually, and I want to create visually. What I want to describe is beyond words."

Since the duo got together as fellow students at Goldsmiths Centre for Research Architecture in 2013, they have been using the production and consumption of food as the focus for numerous long-term, site-specific projects that address how we should live-and eat in particular-in the face of climate change. As they put it: "Food is both deeply connected to the environment and to ecology but at the same time is also intersectional: every living organism on this planet is invested and preoccupied with processes of metabolism, ingestion and the acquisition of nutrients."

"We had just moved to Seattle, and I started drawing. Like every day I drew the commuters on the bus, I would draw the mountains, the buildings," remembered Campanario.

Georges Seurat was a French post-Impressionist best known for a technique later dubbed pointillism: painting not with expressive brushstrokes, but by patiently placing thousands of tiny dots onto the surface. Rather than mixing colours on a palette, Seurat relied on the viewer's eye to do the work. The dots optically blend at a distance, creating the colour and light he intended.

Born in East Germany just a few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, her work ruminated on reunification. It often incorporated furniture and found domestic objects and mass-produced home goods from the era as carriers of ideologies, politics, and social truths. She passed away of cancer just three months before the opening of the Venice Biennale, where she was set to co-represent Germany with artist Sung Tieu.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard will not renew the lease of a drone manufacturer that contracts with Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Israeli military, and the Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems after more than a year of activists demanding eviction. The Navy Yard lists Easy Aerial as a " fine art and photography" business, but government records show the company has millions of dollars worth of US Air Force contracts, as well as a contract with CBP for drone operator training.

Instead, this version surfaces as a labor of love, a shot-by-shot remake of the 1997 blockbuster, assembled over more than a decade by an artist and featuring a cast of hundreds. " " marks the New York premiere of Titanic, A Deep Emotion Claudia Bitrán's reimagining of the James Cameron film, crafted with a variety of disciplines from drawing and painting to performance and sculpture.

Happy Lunar New Year and Ramadan to our readers who celebrate. May this be a year of peace, health, and prosperity for us all. May it also be a year when artists can make a living from their work, when autocrats are overthrown, when traffickers and their accomplices are brought to justice, when art ceases to be an investment tool, and when bad-faith art writing sponsored by billionaires vanishes from this world. Enjoy reading! -Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief

What happens when working creatives, career pivoters, and lifelong makers plug into serious art and design education? Pratt Institute's School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) has the answer on view - online at Production Corner and in person at the SCPS Exhibition Space in Manhattan. Developed by one of the world's leading institutions for art and design education, these curated platforms spotlight the ambitious, portfolio-ready work of SCPS students, alumni, and faculty.

Practically glowing in contrast to their dark backgrounds, Clare Celeste's large-scale installations of foliage and flowers spring vibrantly to life. Made from layers of paper cutouts, myriad leaves and blooms invite viewers to immerse themselves in a jungle-like atmosphere. Most recently, Celeste completed compositions for Riem Arcaden Munich, Cartier, and the American Museum of Natural History. Find more on the artist's Instagram.

Hemphill Artworks, the longtime modern and contemporary art gallery and a stalwart of the DC scene, has closed its location in Mount Vernon Square, a sign of the challenges facing art dealers across the country. In an email to collectors and supporters, founder George Hemphill said the gallery will pivot to a different business model, continuing to represent artists and sell work but no longer hosting regular exhibitions. It's the first time Hemphill will be without a storefront in 33 years.

the artist's newest body of work responds to an urgent question precipitated by the catastrophic events of the past year: What does one do when the world collapses? The works attempt to make sense of her experience of the fire and its enduring aftermath, while continuing her exploration of the poetics of loss, displacement, and migration. Kahraman views these works as an offering, a libation, to a burning world.

Installed in front of Amsterdam's Het Scheepvaartmuseum, with NEMO Science Museum in the background, Whale Fall is a light installation by XYTOPIA translating the deep-sea ecological phenomenon of a whale fall into a spatial structure accessible to the . The project was selected through a two-stage international open competition with more than 700 entries, organised by the Amsterdam Light Festival under the theme 'Legacy.' Developed over eighteen months between Sydney, Beijing, and Amsterdam, the installation examines how legacy is defined and by whom.

To move is to hope - to count on getting somewhere; achieving something; communicating, maybe with grace and flair. No wonder the word "spring," the name of a hopeful season, can also be a dance-evoking verb. The tensions and conflicts of our times have seen fallout in the arts, but there is still much dance to look forward to, locally and around the country. Dance on. Hope on.

Rio de Janeiro's carnival is full of contrasts: wealth brushes up against poverty, joyful abandon unfolds alongside hard labour. Its visual expression also explores notions of power. In a country with the largest Catholic population in the world, racy nun costumes are everywhere during the festival. Along with revellers dressing up in sexy police costumes, the Catholic cosplay reveals an element of carnival's underlying subversive nature: authority figures softened, flipped, and reconsidered through street theatre and play A couple dressed as clowns walk through Lapa,

National Lottery Open Week is returning next month, offering free entry, cheap tickets, and tours at venues across London. National Lottery Open Week is a way for lottery-funded venues to thank the players for the £30 million they raise for Good Causes every week. Anyone who visits a participating Lottery-supported project and shows a National Lottery ticket, Instant Win Game, or scratchcard (physical or digital) during National Lottery Open Week can take up a special offer.