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Quiet and understated, the show presents the work of 17 artists, who are either represented by the gallery or part of its wider network. In the exhibition text, the smallness in question is discussed not on the level of "scale or spectacle," but rather speaks to the idea of "concentration over expansion." The intention of the exhibition, positioned as a "living index," very much depends on where we place our attention.

Titled 'Collective Imagination in the Era of Optimization,' this year's edition asked: How can artists, communities and technologies rewire shared futures when the dominant narratives emphasize acceleration and optimization? And what forms of togetherness and resistance surface through media within the context of artistic practices today? The core program‑keynote lectures by Ruth Catlow, Harold Hejazi and Dzina Zhuk (of the artist collective eeefff)‑highlighted emerging forms of rebellious, joyful, multispecies collectivity and solidarity in a time of rising fascism and technocracy.

HfG Offenbach, together with the Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur (HPM) and supported by the Crespo and Aventis Foundations, is inviting applications for RESIDENCY 5.0 - exploring porcelain. This international program offers artists and designers the chance to experiment with porcelain, pushing the limits of material, form and design. The residency is open to postgraduate alumni of art colleges, academies or related institutions with strong experience in ceramics.

Oasis was dead. It was a certainty. I was there when Peaches Christ's planned tribute to Heklina suddenly became a wake for the very venue hosting the tribute. I was there in October when the company's annual Rocky Horror production went from ridiculously raunchy to absolutely heart-breaking. I, like all of you, have spent the last half-year reading the announcements and comforting friends as we counted down the days 'til their New Year's Eve swan song.

It is light, in its many permutations, that gives form to the cycle of Earth's seasons. As our planet tilts and orbits around the Sun, the shifting angles of light create rhythms that shape temperature and weather, and beyond that, entire ecosystems, human cultures, and our deepest sense of time and place.Variation-and its absence-is central to our experience of these rhythms. The changing light of the seasons is more than a visual phenomenon; it is a cosmic metronome.

Now, a LEGO Ideas submission is turning that same can into something equally revolutionary: a buildable gateway to understanding the artist himself. This isn't just about stacking bricks into a cylindrical shape, though the technical achievement of creating such smooth curves at 24 studs diameter deserves recognition. This project represents months of research into Warhol's working methods, his relationship with popular culture, and the visual language of The Factory that became synonymous with 1960s avant-garde creativity.

"MIAMI'S A SUNNY PLACE for shady people!" observed Iggy Pop in a 2008 interview with CNN, just a few years after Art Basel landed on the sandbar that is South Beach and forever altered the landscape of both Miami and contemporary art. "I'm practical, where this place is moody [. . .] and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual-there's a quicksilver quality about this place."

Based in Brazil, Arthur Randolpho is an illustrator who has worked across comics, games and books, and now aspires to be a character designer for animation projects. Working both digitally and using traditional watercolours and pencils, he says his biggest inspirations are Carter Goodrich, Nico Marlet, Matias Bergara and Cory Loftis. Below he shares four examples of his work: an original character design and three unique reinterpretations of well-known characters.

My friend Elaine Short, who has died aged 89, was an artist, potter, teacher and Francophile. She was also a skilled and talented weaver. When I met her in the 1990s she showed me some of her beautiful tapestries, many of them inspired by the Sussex countryside. Her work was exhibited in galleries including Hastings Art Forum, where she was an active member, and her tapestry techniques were much admired.

Much of the macro-economic and geopolitical uncertainty has not gone away, and there is now the added threat that the artificial intelligence (AI) stock market bubble looks ready to burst. Within the art market, the shift in taste towards lower-priced art (plus a few trophies) seems here to stay as collectors nurse the reality that their "investments" in art have not paid off these past ten years or so.

Counterculture auteur David Lynch He directed off-kilter cinematic classics in the 1980s and 1990s, including Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive, and he co-created the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks. David Lynch's surreal, sinister vision, he said, came from a happy 1950s childhood in Boise, Idaho, that was punctuated by startling glimpses of violence. An eye-catching figure known for his messy pompadour, Lynch was also a longtime devotee of transcendental meditation. Read Kyle Norris' remembrance.

As 2025 comes to a close, this final list in our annual round-up pulls together the installations that shaped the most immersive encounters of the year. Across deserts, plazas, courtyards, coastlines, and museums, artists and designers turn movement, light, sound, and material experimentation into living environments that ask us to slow down, listen, and look again. A single year brought iridescent glass shimmering

But you no longer need to be a multimillionaire to own a Picasso for 100, anyone in the world has the chance to walk away with a painting by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The French charity Alzheimer's Research Foundation announced recently it was raffling Picasso's 1941 portrait, Tete de femme, which is worth more than 1m, to a single winner.

Happy Birthday: Give yourself a chance to calibrate what satisfies your needs before you venture forward. Having the facts and formulating the outcome first is necessary this year if you want to be successful. Being happy with yourself and how you look, feel and present yourself to others qualifies you to give your all and assume a position of control. Put your emotions to rest and your valuable assets to work for you. Your numbers are 8, 19, 22, 27, 36, 42, 45.

When filmmakers are cranking out blockbusters, Tinseltown can seem like any other business customer satisfaction measured in popcorn sales and audience smiles. But when filmmakers are passionate, movies can make audiences vibrate with grief, with excitement, with rage. And that happened a lot this year. These 10 films connected when they took really big swings. They hail from gratifyingly divergent perspectives, grapple differently with history and art, aim for diverse audiences, and are without exception passion projects worth seeking out on the biggest possible screen.

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico City issued a statement on Saturday, December 27, after Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny touched an artifact on display at an archaeology museum earlier this month. According to INAH and fan accounts, Bad Bunny, whose full name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, posted images of himself placing his hands on a stela, a type of carved stone monument found in former Maya city-states in Mexico and Central America.

An artist, educator, and researcher based in São Paulo, Brazil, Paulino's work centers around social, ethnic, and gender issues, particularly foregrounding the histories, myths, narratives, and images of Black women in Brazilian society. Her practice, which spans drawing, embroidery, engraving, printmaking, collage, sculpture, and installation, explores the history of racial violence and the persisting legacy of slavery in Brazil, illuminating the impact of memory on psychosocial constructions.

Turning a corner on the fourth floor at the Museum of Modern Art, it appeared: Dogs of Cythera by Dorothea Tanning. Suddenly, the tempo of my visit collapsed not into calm, but into excited consequence. I had moved through the museum at a near run heels striking the floor, senses thrown open still electrified by Wilfredo Lam, but unsatisfied. It was that familiar MoMA condition: the body outrunning thought, the eye consuming faster than meaning can form.

Research from Johns Hopkins University's International Arts + Mind Lab, detailed in the 2023 bestseller Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross, shows that engaging in art reduces the stress hormone cortisol, no matter your skill level, with some benefits appearing in as little as 20 minutes. A 2025 study of nearly 2,500 people across five countries found that creativity can be reliably predicted by how often the brain switches between its default mode network (active during mind-wandering)

However, the interactive screens are running Windows, and Windows is doing what Windows does best: displaying an awkward message. We suspect it's what the artist, famed for subversive and satirical artwork cropping up in the most unexpected of places, would have wanted. Windows complaining about activation can occur if there are licensing issues, or if there has been a hardware change that is enough to send Microsoft's finest into a cycle of despair.

One of Oregon's biggest arts leadership shuffles in 2025 was the resignation of Suzanne Nance as president and CEO of All Classical Radio and the arrival of Fred Child to take her place. Nance, who led the Portland-based global network creatively since 2018, including the station's move from the east side riverbank to downtown Portland, left to become executive director of the Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland, a post she assumes in January.

As Broadway shakes off the confetti of another holiday season, the first half of 2026 is taking shape as a cautious but telling moment for New York theater. Ongoing financial pressures have narrowed the fieldparticularly for new musicalsshifting attention toward star-driven revivals, acclaimed imports, and familiar titles returning in reworked forms. Against that backdrop, below are 10 Broadway and Off-Broadway productions and series to look forward to in the months ahead.

Many remember the Ecce Homo painting that decorates one of its walls not for the original 19th-century brushstrokes, but for the disastrous restoration carried out by a woman then just over 80 years old who acted spontaneously and without asking anyone's permission, though with good intentions. The work of Cecilia Gimenez, who passed away this Monday at the age of 94, was not only catastrophic, blurry, and unrecognizable, but also became an object of ridicule.

Founded in 2002 in Northern California by acrobat duo David Jones and Blaze Birge, Flynn Creek Circus tours the Pacific Northwest every year with a different theme. This year's theme, The Bridge, is inspired by Nordic folklore involving a wolf, a troll, and a goat. Traditional-meets-modern circus acts perform under Capitola's classic big top tent, including jugglers, aerialists, acrobats, contortionists, clowns, and hula hoopers who go by names like The Emperor, The Raven, Ferryman and Red Countess.

"Dear San Francisco" has held a residency at Club Fugazi since 2021, when it replaced long-standing fan favorite "Beach Blanket Babylon." The show features an athletic cast of circus performers in what's essentially a San Francisco-themed take on Cirque du Soleil. The 90-minute show runs from Wednesdays through Sundays and features singing, spoken word, acrobatics and interactive elements. It takes a relentlessly optimistic lens on the city, making it hands-down one of most family-friendly activities San Francisco has to offer.

However, for true magic none can best the way in which Birmingham Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker transforms the Royal Albert Hall's unwieldy, cavernous , proscenium-free space into a dreamy, immersive wintry landscape, thanks to an inspired series of projections by 59 Productions. Drenching the backdrop and sides of the stage with colour and imagery, it creates warm homely interiors, then a giant Christmas tree that gives way to chilly, starlit skies.

The Women was among the most checked-out books in U.S. public libraries this year, making top-10 lists in library systems as far-flung as those in Clawson, Mich., Lawrence, Kan., Flathead County, Mont., and the entire state public library system of Hawaii. It was also the year's most-borrowed ebook on the public library app, Libby. The bestselling novel by Kristin Hannah follows a U.S. Army nurse from the frontlines of the Vietnam War to a family deeply divided about the war and her service.

To start, don't ask her to incorporate any summer stone fruits in a late December menu. "I've had clients who have asked me to make a peach cobbler in December and I'm like, 'No, I'm not going to do it. I didn't put up any peaches!," she said, laughing. Holland doesn't celebrate Kwanzaa herself, but she still sees the season as a chance to celebrate the entire African diaspora.

For instance, the Louvre did not own a single video artwork until this year, when Mohamed Bourouissa's piece documenting the Tuileries Garden made its way into the collection. Acquisitions also illustrate networks of power and exchange in the art world. One of Tate Modern's big gets, a stunning Joan Mitchell triptych, came from none other than Miami-based developer and museum founder Jorge Pérez and his wife Darlene.