Future Stares Back: SCI-Arc 2026 Spring Show
SCI-Arc’s 2026 Spring Show, titled “Future Stares Back,” showcased the school’s design work framed around longevity and long-term impact. The brief event introduction emphasized reconsidering projects as having much longer lifespans, signaling a thematic shift toward sustainability and enduring value in architectural education. The presentation appeared informal and celebratory, underscoring student and faculty engagement with the new curatorial focus.
1,000 Ways to Hold | Erika Chong Shuch at Stanford Arts
Erika Chong Shuch, a visiting artist at Stanford Arts, is leading "1,000 Ways to Hold," a participatory project that will produce 1,000 ceramic pinch-pot bowls made by members of the Stanford and affiliated communities. Participants receive a ball of clay,...
Artist Hyeree Ro Walks Us Through the Process Behind Her Pavilion Project "Bearing".
Artist Hedwig Ross walks viewers through her 1:20‑scale pavilion “Bearing,” slated for the Jardini exhibition in Venice. The work translates the literal meaning of “bearing” – to support weight – into a sculptural environment that invites movement and flow. Ross’s studio...
Entanglements: Connectivities Across Borders / Pavilion of Mongolia at Venice Art Biennale 2026
The Venice Biennale 2026 features a dedicated Mongolia pavilion, curated by a German‑based artist who has spent years collaborating with Mongolian creators. The show presents four artists in their thirties and forties, including Nomin Bold, who previously exhibited at Documenta,...
Artist Henni Alftan: So Much More Than What Is There
Henri Alftan, a Finnish‑born painter now based in Paris, recounts how a childhood gift of oil paints ignited a lifelong artistic identity. Her early exposure to her father’s artist friend’s studio set her on a path that led her...
The Art of the Court with Jonas Wood & John McEnroe
On the Bearfax Podcast, artist Jonas Wood discusses a new series of tennis-court paintings made from photographs he’s taken of televised matches, combining collage, vivid court palettes and pop references like Roy Lichtenstein. Tennis legend and collector John McEnroe joins...
🎸 Ziggy Stardust Unseen: David Bowie & Freddie Burretti’s Lost Looks ✨
The video uncovers previously unseen material from David Bowie’s archive that reveals how his Ziggy Stardust persona could have looked very different, thanks to his collaboration with young London designer Freddie Burretti. Bowie’s encounter with Burretti at the gay club El Sombrero...
Barbara Gladstone’s Million-Dollar Collection of Art and Design | Sotheby's
Sotheby’s latest auction marks the second installment of the Barbara Gladstone collection, a tribute to one of the most influential gallerists of the past three decades. The event follows the inaugural “white‑glove” sale that introduced her curated holdings to the...
José De Jesús Rodríguez's Back & Forth | Art21 "New York Close Up"
José de Jesús Rodríguez describes how incorporating fresco into his acrylic and oil paintings transformed his approach, making painting both material and image with a fragile yet resilient quality. His work began as a personal diary rooted in his Salinas...
Drawing Black Futures Beyond Stereotypes | Robert Pruitt
Artist Robert Pruitt discusses his large-scale figurative drawings that reframe Black identity beyond stereotypes by blending comics, Afrofuturism, personal memory and ritual. Working from self-shot photo references and found motifs—dyeing paper with coffee to counteract whiteness, costuming, and symbolic props—he...
Education as Liberation: Hale Woodruff's Opening Day at Talladega College
At the William Harvey Museum of Art in Talladega, Hale Woodruff’s mural cycle for Talladega College—particularly Opening Day, 1867—depicts the celebration of literacy and the founding of Savery Library after emancipation. The mural centers William Savery, a formerly enslaved builder...
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter, Artist Julian Charrière and DJ Rampa Reflect on Rhythm & Collaboration
Daft Punk co-founder Thomas Bangalter, artist Julian Charrière and DJ Rampa discuss a collaborative, hybrid project presented in Basel that blurs art, music and performance. The work draws conceptual links between the communal origins of house music and the collaborative...
Sonia Boyce on René Magritte, Lygia Clark, and the Art of Improvisation | UNDER THE INFLUENCE
Sonia Boyce describes play and improvisation as central to her art, crediting early encounters with feminist collectives and teachers for steering her toward social, collaborative practices. She cites Lygia Clark’s participatory experiments and René Magritte’s skepticism about representation as touchstones...
Artist & Curator Walkthrough: Allison Katz & Cecilia Alemani on ‘Allison Katz. Outta the Bag’
The video records a walkthrough of Allison Katz’s first major New York solo show, “Outta the Bag,” at Hauser & Wirth, hosted by senior director Zoe Sprling and curated in dialogue with High Line chief curator Cecilia Alemani. The conversation frames the exhibition...
Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990): Emballage, Cricotage and Madame Jarema
The video examines the life and work of Polish avant‑garde artist Tadeusz Kantor, focusing on his signature theatrical concepts—Emballage, Cricotage—and the recurring persona of Madame Jarema. It situates Kantor’s practice within post‑war Poland, where he sought to overturn traditional stagecraft...
Artist Oliver Beer: “Learning to Listen Changes How You See."
Artist Oliver Beer argues that learning to listen can reshape perception, using sound to reveal new dimensions in familiar objects, spaces and social relations. Drawing on his musical upbringing after discovering a Steinway in his childhood barn, Beer treats memory...
How Do Museums Choose What to Exhibit? Inside the Hispanic Society's Sorolla Exhibition at Sotheby's
The video explores how museums decide what to exhibit, using the Hispanic Society’s Sorolla exhibition at Sotheby’s as a case study. Director Sabine Hernandez frames the museum’s purpose around the visitor, emphasizing narrative over sheer object count. With a collection of 800,000...
Ei Arakawa-Nash / Pavilion of Japan at Venice Art Biennale 2026
The 2026 Venice Biennale will feature Japan’s national pavilion, curated around the work of emerging artist Ei Arakawa‑Nash. The pavilion, situated in the historic Giardini, marks Japan’s latest effort to project a forward‑looking cultural narrative on the world stage. Arakawa‑Nash’s installation,...
Stephen Fry: The Portraits That Shape Us
Stephen Fry selects a portrait of Oscar Wilde for Celebration Day and recounts how the playwright’s image shaped his own coming-of-age as a gay man. He describes being captivated by Wilde’s language in The Importance of Being Earnest and later...
Artist Peter Doig on How Travel, Migration, and Different Cultures Shape His Paintings
The video features a candid interview with acclaimed painter Peter Doig, in which he explores how his extensive travel and personal migrations have become integral to his artistic practice. Doig argues that a painter’s work can serve as a map...
Nilbar Güreş: A Kiss On The Eyes / Pavilion of Türkiye at Venice Art Biennale 2026
The video showcases Turkish artist Nilbar Güreş’s new installation “A Kiss On The Eyes,” featured in the Türkiye pavilion at the 2026 Venice Art Biennale. The piece marks a high‑profile entry for Turkey, aligning contemporary artistic practice with national cultural...
A Look at Artists' Books Symposium: Innovators and Innovations, Part 2
Russett Letterman surveyed the ‘objectness’ of Japanese photobooks, arguing that material design, sequencing and collaborative authorship are integral to their meaning. She highlighted landmark projects — Tadanori Yokoo’s elaborate designs, Eikoh Hosoe’s shifting editions of Barakei/Ordeal by Roses, Kikuji Kawada’s...
She Wants You to Rest: Inside Amanda Heng’s Venice Biennale 2026 Installation
Amanda Heng’s Venice Biennale 2026 installation invites visitors to pause, turning the concept of rest into a tangible spatial experience. By reconfiguring the pavilion with larch wood—identical to the Arsenale’s floorboards—she blends the artwork with the historic fabric of Venice,...
The Baer Faxt Podcast with Founder of Dib Bangkok Purat ‘Chang’ Osathanugrah
The Baer Faxt Podcast features Purat “Chang” Osathanugrah, founder of Dib Bangkok, discussing Thailand’s distinctive cultural trajectory. He emphasizes that Thailand is one of the few Asian nations never fully colonized, preserving an unapologetically pure, organic culture that shapes its...
Opening a Claes Oldenburg Sculpture | Behind the Scenes
Whitney conservators carefully opened Claes Oldenburg’s 1965 soft sculpture Soft Door Meer Mixer to repair strain at its hanging point and create an internal support so it can be displayed as the artist intended. Inside they found remnants of an...
Artist Conducts a Silent Orchestra.
An artist has created a 'silent wind orchestra'—sculptural wind instruments made from elongated brass and copper tubes attached to trumpets and bugles that stand alone as visual works rather than sounding instruments. The project evolved from an initial idea to...
IN SESSION: What Is at Stake? With Dr Despina Zacharopoulou and Evi Kalogiropoulou
The Royal College of Art hosted an In Session webinar led by Despina Zacharopoulou featuring RCA alumni artists Emma Fineman and Dr. Yorgos Contis to discuss this year’s Contemporary Art Summer School theme, “Anna metamaterialisms: contemporary art practice reinventing, rethinking...
Beyond Categories: New Models for Identity Today
The Yale University Art Gallery hosted a multidisciplinary conversation titled “Beyond Categories: New Models for Identity Today,” anchored by Jess Fan’s exhibition “Just Fan Unbounded.” Curator Margaret Euing introduced the show, which traces Fan’s decade‑long practice of merging abstract sculpture...
Getting to the Point | Sáng Tạo Với Bút Bi
The video follows a Vietnamese artist’s personal evolution from charcoal sketches to meticulous ballpoint‑pen drawings, highlighting how a perfectionist mindset prompted the medium change. He explains that ballpoint work demands a line‑by‑line approach because mistakes cannot be erased, making hand...
A Backyard Temple of Peace and Understanding
A man created an unconventional backyard “temple” that serves as a refuge and classroom for troubled youth and a meeting place for people from disparate walks of life. Designed to induce playful disorientation as a step toward reflection, the space...
If Van Gogh's Walls Could Talk | Art Institute Shorts
Conservators at the Art Institute examined Van Gogh’s painting The Bedroom to resolve a discrepancy between the canvas’s current blue walls and the artist’s letters describing violet walls and lilac doors. Microscopic analysis revealed numerous pink particles in paint samples,...
Graziella Patiño De Ortiz Linares Collection
The Ortis Patiño (Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares) collection traces its origins to 1927 in Paris, when Simon Patiño gifted his daughter Graziella an hôtel particulier that became a decades‑long cabinet of perfection. Over 40 years the family assembled paintings...
Recreating Whistler's Sauce | Conservation Stories
James McNeill Whistler, an American-born painter who worked in Paris and London, evolved from denser mid-19th-century works to increasingly fluid, translucent paintings from the 1870s onward. Conservators recreated Whistler’s so-called “sauce,” finding it comprised chiefly of black, a little yellow...
Brauner, Giacometti & More: Inside the Fred Feinsilber Collection | Sotheby’s
The Sothe & Co. video tours the Fred Feinsilber collection, revealing how an immigrant‑turned‑scientist turned late‑life collector used art as a therapeutic quest for beauty. Feinsilber, who arrived in France at thirteen, built a successful company before devoting his 50s to acquiring...
Comigo Ninguém Pode / Pavilion of Brazil at Venice Biennale 2026
The Brazilian pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, titled "Comigo Ninguém Pode," opens the exhibition with a bold statement about contemporary Brazilian art. Curated by a coalition of leading artists and curators, the pavilion features an immersive installation that interrogates identity,...
Cecelia Condit Post Show Talk
The Walker Art Center hosted a post‑screening conversation with veteran video artist Cecelia Condit, showcasing a career‑spanning program that included early classics like Beneath the Skin and Possibly in Michigan, as well as two brand‑new 2025 works, A Parable of...
Learning Exchange: Artists Matter in Los Angeles
A Los Angeles event marking a decade of the Learning Exchange brought artists, educators and community organizations together to discuss how museums and arts institutions can mentor young people and foster belonging. Speakers emphasized that arts programming should be integrated...
Painter Nicolas Party: Art Makes Us Be Human
Painter Nicolas Party describes his studio practice as a disciplined pursuit of looseness: he uses books and music to quiet self-consciousness, relies on daily practice to make technique intuitive, and repeatedly steps back from works to make decisive compositional changes....
Inner Worlds | Architect Khushnu Panthaki Hoof
Architect Kushno Panthakihoof describes an approach to architecture that treats darkness as a tool to shape light and atmosphere, prioritizing relationships between solid and void, people and place. Working from SAT, a studio founded and designed by his grandfather in...
From the VTV Archive (2008): Qiu Anxiong: Staring Into Amnesia, 2007
The clip, titled “From the VTV Archive (2008): Qiu Anxiong: Staring into Amnesia, 2007,” appears to be an archival recording with no discernible business announcement or clear subject matter. The transcript is riddled with disjointed phrases, mentioning China, hair, blood,...
Livestream | Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse & 20C Evening Sale | New York
Sotheby’s livestream for ‘‘Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse & 20th Century Evening Sale’’ showcased works from one of America’s most consequential private collections, led by canonical highlights: Renoir’s La Famille (a rare portrait of model Néné López), Mark...
Hale Woodruff, The Underground Railroad
At the William Harvey Museum of Art at Talladega College, Hale Woodruff’s six-panel mural cycle—including the panel titled The Underground Railroad—depicts the collaboration between abolitionists and enslaved people seeking freedom. The Underground Railroad canvas traces a left-to-right movement toward Ohio,...
Jonathan González on "Magic Hour–Golden Time” At the Whitney
Jonathan González’s “magic hour–golden time” at the Whitney Museum is a durational performance that fuses live dance with a photographic installation, using the city’s skyline as a mutable backdrop. The work asks dancers to inhabit a fleeting moment of daylight,...
Artist Walks on Water.
The video follows an artist who turns tightrope walking into a personal meditation on balance and life. After committing to an hour of practice each day, he notes a shift after a week: rather than seeking perfect steadiness, he learns...
Is This Photograph Worth $1 Million or $200? Learn How #sothebys Finds Out
The video follows a Sotheby’s team in Long Island City as they apply scientific techniques to verify an early‑print photograph by Edward Steichen titled “Balzac, The Open Sky” (1908). The goal is to determine whether the work merits a seven‑figure...
Why Renoir Was the Greatest Impressionist Painter of People #sothebys #renoir
Renoir’s 1892 nude, Baigneuse assise sur un rocher, serves as the video’s centerpiece, illustrating why the artist is hailed as the greatest Impressionist painter of people. While Impressionism is often linked to landscapes, the piece foregrounds a young female figure...
Discover the Hushed Beauty of ‘Blue House’ by Noah Davis | Christie's
The video spotlights Noah Davis’s painting “Blue House,” a vivid depiction of a West Adams residence that serves as a visual diary of the artist’s surroundings. By anchoring the work in a specific neighborhood, Davis translates the built environment into...
This Video Tours Carol Bove's Presentation at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has opened the first comprehensive museum survey of Carol Bove, running March 5–August 2, 2026. The show spans her 25‑year career, featuring early drawings and a new series of monumental “collage sculptures” made from scrap metal and...
Painter Tali Lennox Invites You Into the Surreal World of #dorotheatanning #sothebys
The video features painter Tali Lennox discussing her adaptation of Dorothea Tanning’s surreal paintings, presented in a Sotheby’s context. Lennox describes how Tanning’s humor and absurdity inform her own work, noting specific motifs like fetus‑hand figures, heart‑shaped heads, machinery‑animal hybrids,...
From Giacometti to Lalanne: A Designer’s Dream Sale With Ellie Peugeot | Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s recent design auction was staged by London‑based interior designer and scenographer Ellie Peugeot, who brought her heritage‑focused lens to the sale. Drawing on her work with historic properties and her board role at the World Monuments Fund, Peugeot treated...