Art

Cave markings discovered in Ireland could transform understanding of when humans first settled there

Researchers believe that humans may have walked across the sea from Wales during the last Ice Age and made art

A Tiny Hot Dog Art Show and Other Treasures at Affordable Art Fair

Dylan Martinez's glass-blown water balloons, Deanna Billy Projects' mini wiener paintings, and Abu Oluwaseyi's abstract portraits all caught my eye at this year’s NYC edition.

Artists Fear Displacement as ChaShaMa Forced to Vacate Studios

The organization will lose half of its studio spaces to a tenant who wants to expand their footprint in the Brooklyn Army Terminal building.

Anish Kapoor Is a One-Trick Illusionist

What does the British artist have to offer beyond monumental scale and costly optical illusions?

Artists and Illustrators Throw Ed Sheeran for a Loop

Protest artworks and memes scrutinize Sheeran's inability to speak out against the genocide after he axed Macklemore from his Loop Tour over pro-Palestine comments.

Visions of Johanna Unzueta

The Chilean artist’s drawings on hand-dyed paper and homespun fabric are like natural pills against language.

Visiting the Bayeux Tapestry? Put Your Camera Away

The British Museum has reversed its policy on allowing photography of the near-thousand-year-old work.

Madrid's Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza to get new home for contemporary art

The expansion will see a total of more than 360 contemporary works donated or on loan from the TBA21 Collection, led by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza

Celebrated Italian church featuring art by Giotto and Cimabue preserved through new digital reconstruction project

Panoramic views of the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi in central Italy’s Umbria region can be viewed on the Preserving Assisi platform

Tate Modern to stage its first Monet exhibition next year

The exhibition, which explores the passage of time across Monet's oeuvre, is partly sponsored by Anthropic, who sponsored another Monet show earlier this year

Comment | Mega-galleries reducing their real estate footprint might seem to spell doom—but a bit of perspective is needed

Property moves by the largest galleries may signal adaptation rather than retreat in an unsettled art market

Researchers rescuing war-damaged manuscripts in Gaza receive Unesco prize

Abdul Latif Hashim and Haneen Al-Amassi have been awarded the $40,000 Unesco/Jikji Memory of the World Prize

10 Art Shows to See in Chicago This Fall

Jill Mulleady's uncannily familiar scenes, Kate Hefferan's secret magic, the critical role of printed matter in prisons, a moving photographic tribute to Emmett Till, and more.

Remembering Cat Frazier, Susan Michod, and Joel Snyder

This week, we honor a designer who changed the internet, a Pattern and Decoration painter, and one of the first photography professors in the US.

Sandra George’s Portraits of Working-Class Dignity

The unsung Black British photographer’s work is the complete opposite of so-called poverty porn.

Winners of 2026 Governor General Awards, one of Canada’s top art prizes, revealed

An exhibition featuring works by all eight recipients of this year’s awards will open in New Brunswick this autumn

Russia’s revered ‘Trinity’ icon being assessed after climate control system breaks down

The State Tretyakov Gallery, which housed Andrei Rublev’s icon until it was transferred to the church in 2023, said museum staff are checking its condition

Ukrainian Orthodox ‘treasures’ from Kyiv monastery go on view at the V&A in London

The opening of the free display was marked by a symposium discussing British and Ukrainian collaboration to protect and preserve the embattled country's cultural heritage

London gallery brings together 200 works by Iranian artists as part of ‘very special’ joint initiative

Ab-Anbar Gallery is offering a rare access to contemporary Iranian art as sanctions, war and economic pressures isolate the country’s art scene

Metropolitan Museum breaks ground on long-awaited new wing for Modern and contemporary art

The ceremony officially kicked off construction on the wing designed by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo

Renoir show at London’s National Gallery sees record ticket sales ahead of opening

'Renoir and Love', which opens this October in collaboration with the Musee d'Orsay and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has already sold more than 22,000 tickets

2026 London Design Medal winners inspire design beyond boundaries

London Design Festival honours Anab Jain, Jonathan Anderson, Sir Christopher Frayling and Solveiga Pakštaitė, spotlighting the transformative power of contemporary design.

Design Democracy returns to Hyderabad with an intersectional programme

Over three days, Design Democracy 2026 will converge design, craft and dialogue through exhibitions, installations and talks, exploring India’s evolving design landscape.

Neptune Frost and the Final Future of Afrofuturism

Charles Tonderai Mudede does a deep dive on Steven Shaviro’s book about the Afrofuturist film Neptune Frost (2021).

Populism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Fascism

T. J. Demos examines the work of artists modeling an anti-fascist aesthetics.

Yayoi Kusama passes away at 97: The artist who turned hallucinations into infinity

A pioneer of the postwar avant-garde art, the Japanese artist spent decades pushing painting, sculpture and installation beyond conventional boundaries.

Tracing the influence of architecture awards with Beyond Recognition at UIA 2026

A panel at the recently concluded congress in Barcelona, organised by a consortium of six international architecture awards, reflected on addressing architecture’s inequalities.

Thinking through curatorial practice at the Experimenter Curators' Hub

In its 15th edition, the Hub in Kolkata turned the spotlight on the curator's evolving role amid changing political and cultural realities.

Incandescent interventions: Groningen, Bengaluru and beyond

A personal essay from the architect and academic recounts the Dutch city as a site for small-scale, playful, luminescent urban architecture, reflecting on the mobility of that idea.

Benoît Maubrey’s sound sculptures are an ‘ohmage’ to the inherent goodness in people

STIR talks to the Berlin-based sculpture artist on his journey and learnings from decades of creating public installations using upcycled loudspeakers.

More Than Cat Food reveals advertising's longest-running visual accomplice

Published by everyedition, Alberto Vieceli’s latest book is a visual archive that charts how adverts have enlisted felines to sell everything (except cat food).

House of Memories’ porous brick interstices envelope nostalgia and stillness

Designed by Studio Lagom, the building takes cues from Indian vernacular architecture, catalysed by reclaimed wood furniture from the client’s old home.

Quinta de Adorigo’s sinuous timber profile mirrors Portugal’s oldest vineyards

For the legacy development in Alto Douro, Atelier Sérgio Rebelo mediates the functional efficiency of a winery with the site’s rich topographical and socio-ecological fabric.

Second Nature at NMACC: The democratic future of exhibitions comes to India

Superblue invited global immersive and new media artists to reimagine the relationship between technology and nature. STIR reports from the exhibition walkthrough.

A 'signpost' amid the Alps, TITLIS Tower by Herzog & de Meuron is a structural triumph

Boasting warm hospitality and panoramic views in cantilevered steel volumes, TITLIS Tower marks the onset of the Swiss architects’ renewal of the popular mountain destination.

West Bund Museum's Material Matters on learning through the hands and the eyes

A double solo exhibition of Sheila Hicks and Shi Hui unpacks two independent artistic worlds through material, memory and the unmediated experience of making.

Against the Clock: Remote Work, Stolen Sleep, and the Limits of Extraction

Elvia Wilk writes that the film Sleep Dealer shows what happens when the 24/7 economy treats the body clock as an inconvenience to be overcome.

Alcatraz as Image: The Trumpian Politics of Carceral Spectacle

Martabel Wasserman on reclaiming Alcatraz from the Trumpian imagination.

Architectures of Amnesia: Donald Judd and America’s “Forgotten War” in Korea

Andrew Sungtaek on the geopolitical and conceptual traces that haunts Donald Judd’s legacy.

Do Androids Dream of AGI?

Vinícius Portella argues that no democratic or socialist future will ever be possible unless digital technology is liberated for the common good

Thank God Science Is Queer Now

Aldo Kempen on the trend of exhibitions about quantum mechanics.

Fire Tribes and Stateless Worlds: A Conversation

Bima Satria Putra, David Wengrow, and Stevphen Shukaitis discuss Indigenous anarchism in Indonesia.

Séamus Kealy appointed director

The Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts (RHA) is pleased to announce the appointment of internationally renowned museum director, curator, artist and writer Séamus Kealy as its new Director.