The Enduring Power of Montage
Thames & Hudson’s new hardcover *Cut Out* reframes collage, montage and assemblage as a feminist practice, spotlighting women, folk and Indigenous creators long omitted from mainstream art histories. The volume surveys the medium from Victorian album makers through Modernist, Surrealist and Dada innovators to contemporary figures such as Lorna Simpson and Mickalene Thomas. By pairing historical analysis with “In Focus” profiles, the book argues that collage has functioned as a form of resistance tied to class, race and gender. It also looks forward, linking past techniques to today’s social and ecological crises.
Verner Panton:Form, Colour, Space
The Vitra Design Museum is mounting a retrospective exhibition, "Form, Colour, Space," to mark the 100th anniversary of Danish designer Verner Panton. Running from 23 May to 9 May, the show features iconic pieces such as the single‑piece plastic Panton Chair, the...
History in Technicolour
MK Gallery in Milton Keynes is mounting “Life in Colour”, a major retrospective of French photographer Jacques‑Henri Lartigue. The show features more than 150 photographs and drawings, highlighting a trove of colour images that represent roughly a third of his...
The Presence of Ice:Sebastião Salgado’s Glaciers
Renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has released *Glaciers*, a coffee‑table book of 65 duotone images captured across Patagonia, the Himalayas, Antarctica and Russia. The collection showcases sweeping ice fields, crevasses and penguin colonies, while interweaving climate‑science commentary from Elisa Palazzi. Salgado’s...
The Poetics of Desire
Lin Zhipeng, working under the alias No.223, presents "Under the Sunlight, There is No True Intimacy" at Fotografiska Shanghai until 14 June. The exhibition assembles two decades of his work, using light, urban backdrops and subtle gestures to explore intimacy...
Angelica Mesiti: Traces in Time
Angelica Mesiti’s first comprehensive solo exhibition in Switzerland opens at Museum Tinguely in Basel, titled *Reverb*. The show features five new video works, most notably the seven‑channel installation *The Rites of When* (2024), which maps the Pleiades stars and draws...
Art of Noise:How Design Shapes Music
The Cooper Hewitt’s “Art of Noise” exhibition explores how visual design has shaped music perception and memory, featuring archival posters, album art, and vintage playback devices. Spanning two galleries, the first highlights the evolution from early phonographs to modern Bluetooth...
Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Focus & Desire
Fotomuseum Winterthur is presenting Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s first major solo exhibition in Switzerland, "Focus & Desire," which runs through 14 June. The show assembles early and recent photographs alongside archival ephemera, revealing Sepuya’s signature practice of exposing the act of image‑making....
Sense of Abstraction
Japanese photographer Yasuhiro Ogawa presents his decade‑long “Lost in Kyoto” series at Buchkunst Berlin. The abstract images move away from typical travel photography, using mist, blur and hand‑ground lenses to convey Kyoto’s layered history. Over 10 million foreign tourists visited Kyoto...
Reclaiming Space
In 2020 photographer Rania Matar returned to post‑explosion Beirut and found graffiti reading “Where do I go?” which became the title of her new exhibition and book, “Where Do I Go? لوي†ن†روح.” The series, shot across Lebanon from 2020‑2025, portrays women...
Defining Freedom
Future Arts Centres and Open Eye Gallery launched "Our Freedom: Then and Now," a UK‑wide photography exhibition exploring how concepts of liberty have evolved over eight decades. The project gathered stories from 60 community‑led initiatives, captured by 22 photographers who...
Portraits of Human Connection
Emmet Gowin’s new exhibition, *Baldwin Street: Photographs 1966‑1994*, opens at Pace Gallery in New York, showcasing three decades of intimate family portraits taken on his childhood street in Virginia. The body of work captures everyday moments—children at play, kitchen scenes,...
Reflecting Landscapes
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo will launch a major retrospective, "Tada Minami: Still, Shimmering Light," on 29 August, showcasing over 70 paintings, sculptures, lighting installations, architectural works and photographs. The exhibition traces Minami’s seven‑decade career, from early composite iron‑plastic pieces...
Can Love Be A Photograph: Forty Years of Inez & Vinoodh
The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is showcasing *Can Love Be A Photograph – 40 Years of Inez & Vinoodh*, a thematic retrospective that spans four decades of the Dutch duo’s work. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin pioneered digital manipulation in...
A Journey in Time
Peggy Weil's "Core Memory" exhibition at MoMA showcases video installations "88 Cores" and "18 Cores" that visualize Greenland ice cores and Salton Sea rock cores. The works descend two miles through 110,000 years of ice and reveal Pleistocene strata, turning...