An Art Installation Inspired by Cats
The video introduces an immersive installation the artist developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, centered on a whimsical cat narrative rendered in indigo-dyed textiles. The work consists of a tent-like canopy of painted rugs where visitors can recline, surrounded by interior animation and exterior video projections, creating a layered storytelling environment. This tactile-visual blend marks a departure from the artist’s earlier, research-driven pieces that examined 19th-century Chinese indentured labor. The creator reflects, “It felt maybe frivolous at first, but then I realized that a lot of it was about relations and contact,” highlighting the intentional shift toward fostering human connection through playful, sensory experiences. By turning to imagination and embodied interaction, the installation illustrates how artists can respond to collective trauma, offering a model for culturally relevant, healing-focused practices in the post-pandemic art world.
Inside Calligraphy that Breaks Out of the Page
The video showcases “Calligraphy Garden,” an immersive installation by the Yangjiang Group, a three‑artist collective based in Yangjiang. The work transforms a gallery space into a flowing river, complete with a waterfall, where hundreds of wax‑sealed calligraphy pieces appear to...
Saodat Ismailova: When the Water Turns to Wind / Portikus FaM
Saodat Ismailova’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany opens at Frankfurt’s Portikus, titled “When the Water Turns to Wind.” The show centers on a newly commissioned film installation that follows the vanished contours of the Aral Sea, now the dust‑laden...
London Collections with Serena Williams-Ellis
Serena Williams partnered with Christie's for a private viewing in London, unveiling a curated selection from her personal art holdings. The showcase blended historic portraiture, iconic photography, and whimsical decorative objects, reflecting Williams’ eclectic taste. Among the highlights, Williams presented Joshua...
25 Years of Italian Art
The platform, launched as The Italian Sale in London, marks 25 years of championing Italian art and has recently relocated its flagship auction house to Paris under the Avant‑Garde(s) banner. It remains the world’s only auction platform devoted exclusively to...
Raymond Saunders: Notes From LA
Raymond Saunders’ solo show “Notes from LA” opens with a playful nod to a first‑grade painting, setting a tone that merges personal memory with his broader artistic practice. The exhibition draws on his long‑standing fascination with pedagogy, humor, and the visual...
First Look at Coachella's Radiohead Bunker Looking Back at 'Kid A' And 'Amnesiac'
Coachella’s 2024 lineup includes a brand‑new underground installation dubbed the Radiohead bunker, a 30‑ to 40‑foot deep space nestled between the Sahara Tent and the Dool Lab. The bunker houses a curated visual experience that stitches together imagery from the band’s...
Shamel Pitts Curatorial Interview
The interview centers on choreographer Shamel Pitts and the world premiere of his new piece, Marks of Red, marking the culmination of a three‑year partnership between his collective Tribe, the Walker Art Center, and the University of Minnesota’s Northrop. Pitts...
The Art of Conservation: Egon Schiele's "Portrait of an Old Man (Johann Harms)" #art #guggenheim
The Guggenheim’s Modern European Currents exhibition features Egon Schiele’s 1916 "Portrait of an Old Man (Johann Harms)" after a meticulous canvas repair. Conservator Diana Hartman Drumm used ophthalmic surgical needles—tools normally reserved for eye surgery—to stitch the tear with microscopic...
London Collections: Ardbraccan House
Christie's spring collection sale opened with a rare glimpse into the personal holdings of Serena Williams Ellers, the Irish collector who has curated a distinctive assemblage from her family estate, Artramon House. The showcase, staged in the gallery’s historic rooms, blends fine...
The Ultimate Cliché in Art History. #RagnarKjartansson #Art21
Ragnar Kjartansson recounts how, at 32, he was invited to represent Iceland at the Venice Biennale and chose to transform the historic palazzo into a functional studio rather than a conventional exhibition. Instead of mounting paintings on walls, he and a...
In Downtown LA, Dancer Lil Buck and Music Artist Ode Reflect on Choosing Change in a Shifting World
The video pairs renowned dancer Lil Buck with music artist Ode to explore the urgency of personal transformation in today’s fluid cultural landscape. Set against a rhythmic backdrop, the duo uses lyrical affirmations—“Going to change my life tomorrow” and “be the...
Treasure Hunt for a $50 Million Chinese Art Collection | Sotheby’s Stories
Sotheby’s Asia chairman Nicolas Chow recounts a five‑year “treasure hunt” that culminated in the sale of a $50 million Chinese seal collection, illustrating the firm’s role in repatriating cultural heritage. Chow discovered that a single West‑Coast collector had purchased roughly 80 % of...
Navigating Homesickness Through Sculpture (Do Ho Suh) | Art21
Do Ho Suh’s latest video delves into his lifelong quest to reconcile homesickness with artistic practice. By engineering lightweight, fabric‑wrapped replicas of his parents’ traditional Korean house, he literally carries his private space across continents, turning the act of...
Split Diopter 2
"Split Diopter 2" is a documentary that captures the 2025 SCI‑Arc Gallery exhibition curated by Jan Tumlir and Reza Monahan. The show uses the split‑diopter lens—a half‑glass that keeps foreground and background simultaneously in focus—as a conceptual device to question...
Sarah Sze: Feel Free / Gagosian Beverly Hills
Sarah Sze’s solo show "Feel Free" opened at Gagosian Beverly Hills in February 2026, featuring two new video installations—Sleepers (2024) and Once in a Lifetime (2026)—alongside a fresh series of large‑scale paintings. The works blend oil, acrylic, photographs, digital images...
Massimiliano Gioni on Robots and Myths at the New Museum | INTERPRETATIONS
Massimiliano Gioni, artistic director of the New Museum, opens “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” a show that situates robots, AI and the myth of the “new man” within a historic dialogue between the 1920s and today. The exhibition argues that...
Art Explainer How to Read a Portrait
The video serves as a practical guide to ‘reading’ portraits, urging viewers to move past a quick glance and treat each image as a layered narrative. It proposes a step‑by‑step method: spend at least a minute observing, ask probing questions, then...
Artist Paulina Olowska: ”I Think Being an Artist Is Kind of Like Being a Medium.
Polish artist Paulina Olowska describes her practice as a medium that senses the right moment and energy, while recounting her move to a small village and the restoration of the historic Kadenówka house into a creative sanctuary. Olowska explains that Kadenówka,...
In Monet’s Footsteps: Finding the Views Behind Two Long-Lost Color Paintings | Sotheby’s
The Sotheby’s video documents the first public viewing in color of two Monet canvases that have been hidden for more than half a century. The works—‘Lizzie la Pointe de Villez’ (1883) and ‘Vetheuil Effet du Matin’ (1901)—were located on the Seine’s...
Demolition | MoMA R&D Salon 57 | MoMA LIVE
MoMA’s R&D Salon 57 convened scholars, curators and artists to dissect demolition as a cultural and urban force. The program traced demolition from historic spectacles like Pruitt‑Igoe’s implosion to contemporary artistic interventions, probing its dual identity as destruction and creation. Speakers...
Art that Deals with Grief
Michelle’s latest studio series confronts grief by turning her own body and daily rituals into material art. She casts her belly button, hair, and fingernails, embedding them in resin to “anchor time” and give physical form to loss. An alternative photography...
What It's Really Like to Be a Life Model
The video follows a former professional life model who spent years posing for artist Pru, describing how an eight‑hour studio routine became a familiar, collaborative ritual. She recounts how a chance call to replace a cancelled model launched a two‑decade...
Inside a “Kitchen” Where Everything Is Improvised
The video showcases an experimental artist who has built an installation he calls a “kitchen,” a space where everyday cooking implements become the raw material for live improvisation. Rather than following a script, the creator assembles objects such as potatoes,...
Uncovering Rousseau’s True Colors
The video documents a conservation effort to remove mid‑20th‑century restoration layers from a painting by Henri Rousseau. Technicians are carefully stripping varnish applied in the 1940s and 1950s, which has yellowed and obscured the artist’s original palette. Using solvents that have...
Member Lecture: Matisse’s Jazz—Rhythms in Color
The Art Institute of Chicago’s new exhibition “Matisse’s Jazz: Rhythms in Color” revisits Henri Matisse’s 1947 artist book “Jazz,” a pivotal work created during the final decade of his life. Curator Emily Ziemba frames the book as both a personal...
Rolling Stone Editor Reacts to Exclusive Stevie Nicks Relics | Sotheby's
Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony J. Curtis previewed items slated for Sotheby’s upcoming Rock & Pop auction, focusing on legendary Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks. The preview showcased a stage‑used, signed tambourine, one of Nicks’ signature flowing outfits, and the original artwork for...
Vietnam Circus Triumphs on Global Stage
The video celebrates a landmark achievement by Vietnam’s premier circus troupe, which captured a top prize at a world‑renowned competition and secured an invitation to perform at the Monte Carlo Festival in 2027. The win not only validates the group’s...
Life After Humans: AI, E-Waste, and Biologised Machines | Data Dreams: Art and AI
The Data Dreams video “Life after humans: AI, e‑waste, and biologised machines” examines a speculative future where artificial intelligence, discarded electronics and engineered organisms converge to spawn new forms of life after humanity’s decline. The narrator suggests AI could serve as...
What Does It Mean to Be Human in the Age of the Machine? | Lynn Hershman Leeson's Cyborg Series
The video explores Lynn Hershman Leeson’s long‑standing investigation of what it means to be human when machines become extensions of the self. Centered on her Cyborg series, the piece follows a fictional cyborg—portrayed by Joan Chen—whose life traces the term’s origin in...
The Red Studio by Matisse (1911)
The video examines Henri Matisse’s 1911 masterpiece, The Red Studio, a work acquired by MoMA in 1948 that has become a touchstone for mid‑century American abstraction. It outlines how the painting’s stark, unmodulated Venetian red and flattened space broke from...
"I Draw It because I Want to Keep It" | ★★★★★ Rose Wylie
Rose Wylie explains that her artistic practice begins with a simple impulse: when she encounters a visually striking moment—a bird at a window, a passing cat, or an online image—she sketches it to "keep it." The act of drawing serves...
Oh Great in Paris: Unveiling a New Chapter with New Graphic Novel ‘Smoke’ • FRANCE 24 English
The segment spotlights a slate of Paris‑area cultural events, from a Titanic immersion at the Cité des Sciences to the launch of Japanese mangaka Oh! Great’s first colour graphic novel, “Smoke,” at the Paris Book Festival. It also previews a...
ArtDrunk TinaKim ExhibitionWalkthrough V1 4 EN
The video walks viewers through the ArtDrunk TinaKim exhibition, a spring showcase honoring the late Korean artist Suki Suk Young Kang on the first anniversary of her passing. Curated as a tribute, the show foregrounds her signature grid motif, which...
You Can't Escape AI Anymore | Data Dreams: Art and AI
The video argues that artificial intelligence has moved from a futuristic novelty to a compulsory infrastructure embedded in every facet of modern life, from hiring platforms to everyday loyalty cards. It frames this ubiquity as a form of techno‑colonialism that...
Beyond the Algorithm – Angie Abdilla on Meditation on Country | Data Dreams: Art and AI
The video features artist and researcher Angie Abdilla reflecting on her uneasy relationship with large language models (LLMs), foregrounding the environmental toll of training such systems and the ethical dilemmas they raise. She frames the conversation around "lossy"—the degradation of...
VernissageTV Magazine No. 62: Lilly
VernissageTV released Magazine No. 62 in April 2026, spotlighting Simco Audio, painter Nicolas Party, architect Frank Gehry, and a collection of Masonic objects. The issue is available as a print‑on‑demand copy through Peecho and can be ordered online. The channel also promotes early‑access subscriptions...
The Handbag You’ve Never Seen: Gabriela Hearst & Adam Pendleton’s Tribute to Nina Simone | Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s unveiled a limited‑edition collection of 25 hand‑painted “Nina” handbags, created by fashion designer Gabriela Hearst in partnership with contemporary artist Adam Pendleton. The pieces honor singer‑songwriter Nina Simone and channel all sales toward purchasing and preserving Simone’s childhood home...
Symposium—Iba Ndiaye: Between Latitude and Longitude
The Metropolitan Museum opened its newly renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing with a day‑long symposium centered on Senegalese modernist Iba Ndiaye. The flagship exhibition, “Between Latitude and Longitude,” presents Ndiaye’s seminal work “Tabaski III” alongside European masterpieces—Rembrandt’s “Sacrifice of Isaac,” Soutine’s...
The Most Joyful Artist in the World ☀️ Meet John Lyons
The video profiles John Lyons, a 92‑year‑old Trinidad‑born creator who describes himself as a painter, poet, and cook. He frames his practice as a "creative triangular effort," where each discipline informs the others, and he likens his tools to extensions...
Have You Seen This Plant Before?
The video follows an artist who is experimenting with plant silhouettes, specifically blending the Caribbean almond—a common sight in Nigeria—with the Indian rubber plant. By flattening and separating the shapes, the creator seeks a cohesive visual that still respects each...
Inside This LA Artist's Studio Before Her Exhibition
The video offers an intimate walkthrough of a Los Angeles artist’s studio as she prepares for an upcoming exhibition. Viewers see a sprawling workspace divided into zones: a model section where she maps out show concepts, a material-testing area featuring...
Why These Rock & Pop Relics Still Give a Rolling Stone Critic Chills | Sotheby's
Anthony J. Curtis, Rolling Stone critic, previews Sotheby's Rock & Pop auction, showcasing iconic relics that span the 1970s and 1980s. The preview highlights Stevie Nicks' signed tambourine and stage outfit, the original Rumors album artwork, custom 1974 Grateful Dead...
Gerda Maise & Daniel Göttin: Spannung. Galerie Für Gegenwartskunst, E-Werk Freiburg
Swiss artist duo Gerda Maise and Daniel Göttin have mounted "Spannung" at the Galerie für Gegenwartskunst in Freiburg’s historic E‑Werk power station. In the basement, Göttin weaves the building’s steel pillars into a winding labyrinth while Maise bathes the space...
Máret Ánne Sara on the Contract Between Humans and Reindeer | Tate
Máret Ánne Sara explains that the reindeer is not merely livestock for the Sámi people but a cornerstone of their philosophy, daily life, and survival. She frames the relationship as a sacred contract rooted in ancient tales, where the animal...
Sanford Robinson Gifford, Twilight in the Adirondacks
The video examines Sanford Gifford’s 1862 oil “Twilight in the Adirondacks,” a modest‑sized landscape held by the Art Bridges Foundation. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Javier Rivero Ramos guide viewers through the work’s visual and historical dimensions. The scholars note the...
Art Alum Dar San Agustin Turns Everyday Objects Into Sculpture
Dar Sanugustine, a 2025 graduate of CalArts’ School of Art, Photo and Media, uses his post‑graduate show to turn the ubiquitous "good morning" towel—an immigrant household item common in the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong and China—into cement sculptures. The work interrogates...
Sunday at The Met—Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck
The Met’s Sunday at The Met series hosted the opening of “Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck,” a Finnish‑focused exhibition launched on International Women’s Day and timed with Women’s History Month. Curator Dita Amory introduced the show, highlighting Schjerfbeck’s...
Walter Benjamin’s Final Days and His Cherished Paul Klee Drawing | S10, EP7 DIALOGUES PODCAST
The Dialogues podcast episode examines Walter Benjamin’s relationship with Paul Klee’s 1920 drawing Angelus Novus and traces how both the artwork and Benjamin’s seminal “Thesis on the Philosophy of History” survived the Nazi onslaught. Benjamin purchased the drawing in Munich a...
The Woman Who Runs Art Basel Hong Kong Told Me Everything
The video features an informal interview with Adeline Ooi, the director of Art Basel Hong Kong, as she walks through the fair’s bustling halls. Ooi reflects on her journey from exhibitor in 2011 to overseeing a 240‑gallery event, describing the...