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Jul 19, 2026 Video Craft: When the Screen Needs a Loom Encoding, looping, sampling—returned to cloth and clay. At San Francisco's Museum of Craft and Design, nearly twenty a... Jul 19, 2026 Peter Fischli: Signals Without a Script Grey poles, loose cables, lights in white and orange that refuse a timetable. At the Fridericianum, Peter Fischli turns ... Jul 19, 2026 Olafur Eliasson: The Rainbow That Needs You A yellow corridor that drains colour from your hands. A rainbow that exists only from your angle. After Singapore, Auckl... Jul 19, 2026 Hard Feelings: The Whitney After the Shout Fifty-six artists, no manifesto title, a hang critics call roomy or sublime. The 2026 Whitney Biennial does not shout. I... Jul 19, 2026 Jongjin Park: Paper That Remembers Fire Tissue paper dipped in porcelain slip, stacked by the thousand, then fired until the paper vanishes. What remains is roc... Jul 17, 2026 In Minor Keys: Venice After Koyo Kouoh Not the fanfare — the minor key. The 61st Venice Biennale carries Koyo Kouoh's title and her absence: a call for softe... Jun 22, 2026 Akseli Gallen-Kallela: The Painter of Finland's Soul A nation barely allowed to be a nation found its face in one painter's brush. Akseli Gallen-Kallela turned the Kalevala ... Jun 22, 2026 French Fries Killing Lovers: Bugo (Cristian Bugatti) at New Delhi A sign six metres by three, reading 'French fries killing lovers', installed on a street in Ghaziabad outside New Delhi ... Jun 21, 2026 In Praise of the Visible Hand The wobble in the line, the thumbprint in the clay, the seam that didn't quite meet — for a decade these were errors t... Jul 22, 2014 Marina Abramović: 512 Hours Three empty rooms. No phones, no cameras, no watches. For 512 hours Marina Abramović offered the public nothing but her... Jul 10, 2013 The Color Project: Adrien Broom's Rooms of One Hue A girl steps through a series of rooms, each one drowned in a single saturated colour — red, then blue, then gold. Adr... Jun 20, 2013 CURVY: A Decade of Women Who Draw Since 2003, CURVY has put 100 female illustrators in print every year — from the obvious art capitals to Malta, Moscow...