Naomi Rincón-Gallardo's video installation, Resilience Tiacuache\Opposum Resilience (2019), perfectly encapsulates the hopes of the 18th Istanbul Biennial, a space where "self-preservation and futurity are interdependent", according to curator Christine Tohmé. Using survival-seeking opossums as a metaphor for mankind, this extremely funny and imaginative installation sees the creatures stand up to violent enemies that threaten their happiness and lives, bringing about a child-like joy in the viewer.
Emerging from the artist's meditative practice of lake kayaking, these compositions channel the phenomenology of being adrift: the body poised between two planes - sky above, reflection below - while light and color collapse the distinction between horizon and self. For Walhimer, kayaking is not simply recreation but a way of seeing, a durational practice that turns sky and water into an expanded field of perception.
The Metropolitan Opera's 2025-2026 season opened last night with Mason Bates' The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Based on Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, the opera follows Josef Kavalier and Samuel Klayman, two Jewish cousins who break into the burgeoning comic book industry of the 1930s with the creation of an anti-fascist superhero called The Escapist, inspired by Josef's escape from Nazi-occupied Prague.
There are new mixed media sculptures in your Blue Acid show. They combine 3D elements with 2D painted planes which are almost billboard-like presentations intermixed in the work in a novel way. How do you approach such a thing? One of the great things about making art is discovering something that sprang from seemingly nowhere. In retrospect it looks logical but in the moment it's an epiphany and suddenly it's exciting to explore it.
Happy Birthday: Take a new approach to life, love and achieving the happiness you deserve. A change of scenery, revamping your routine and learning more about the people, places and things that interest you are good places to start. Change begins with you, and without taking the initiative and establishing boundaries, standards and plans, you'll continue to spin your wheels and go nowhere. Shake things up, and you'll make things happen.
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Berlin's avant-garde artistic scene is forever enriched by the mesmerising performance work, DUNST, crafted by the dynamic duo Marie Zechiel and Elodie Carstensen. The piece premiered at the esteemed LOST Art Festival 2025. This stunning piece transports us into a realm where body, space, and atmosphere converge in an unforgettable experience. Set against the backdrop of Guillaume Cousin's monumental smoke-ring installation within the industrial expanse of the Kolbenhutte, DUNST unfolds a tapestry of movement that captivates the senses.
Hispanic Heritage Month kicked off on Sunday, Sept. 14, at Children's Discovery Museum with a performance by Dulce Tricolor Venezolano, a traditional Venezuelan dance group. The celebration also included the first of three visits from artists Elba Raquel (AKA BO$$), Yuky, Rox, Emoventur and Itzayana Silva, who are presenting an immersive alebrije experience to support the exhibit of alebrijes in Plaza de Cesar Chavez throughout September. Upcoming events include: Sunday, Sept. 28-ChiquyBoom!, 11:30 a.m.; Chiqlets dance group, 2 p.m.; and Alebrije Immersive Experience 10 a.m.-2 p.m.;
In Tender Revolutions/Yellow Songs, personal post-war and diasporic herstories are revisited by means of the Vietnamese creation myth, a multi-part origin story told at the outset by Dao, and further narrated by her two poet-collaborators Barbara Tran and Hoa Nguyen, fellow members of She Who Has No Master(s). Co-founded by Dao, this collective of Vietnamese womxn and nonbinary writers of the Vietnamese diaspora "engage in collaborative, polyvocal, and hybrid-poetic works to enact a politics of connection across diasporic boundaries."
I always thought ballet would be a music box come to life. A dainty princess twirls in a stiff tutu while a prince solemnly assists, and the whole performance would serve up a tax-free inheritance in pointe shoes - polished, rarefied, and untouched by mortal concerns like gravity or sweat. In reality, one heroine fumbles every life decision and ends up in a swamp.
A Netflix drama about them is on its way, but head of the family Ned Guinness has written his own history of the iconic dynasty. Here, he talks about his idyllic childhood in Farmleigh, the accusations of sectarianism his ancestors faced, why they opposed Irish independence and how the brewery almost moved to Wales
Known for his ability to fuse Catholic iconography with Mexican folklore and contemporary visual culture, de Nieves uses this project to create a space for reflection, renewal, and collective connection. The exhibition marks the artist's first institutional solo presentation in New York City and is on view through December 14, making it one of the city's most striking cultural experiences this season.
Water, for Rawles, is never neutral. In the lineage of scholars like Christina Sharpe and Saidiya Hartman, the artist considers water to be a charged site and vessel for memory. Along with references to texts by Audre Lorde, Octavia Butler, and Albert Camus, among others, she presents this philosophical grounding as a way to consider the inevitability of change and how transformation can inspire hope. "What is the artist's role in moments of crisis?" she asks.
Vlaemsch (chez moi) is Flemish-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's love letter to his native Flanders. Like so many love letters, it's full of anger, pain and recrimination. Its tone is by turns overblown, infuriated, accusatory, ironic and tender. It is, nonetheless, a love letter in the guise of a piece of dance-theatre. Cherkaoui's background is as complex as that of his native Flanders. He was born in Antwerp, the son of a Moroccan father and a Flemish mother;
But now a true successor has been announced: next year the Southbank Centre's 2026 75th anniversary programme will play explicit homage to the Festival of Great Britain, most notably in You Are Here (May 4 and 5 2026), a huge weekend-long celebration of British youth culture conceived and directed by the one and only Danny 'London Olympics Opening Ceremony' Boyle, plus Gareth Pugh, Carson McColl and Paulette Randall.
Christie's raised a projected $2.1bn in the first half of 2025-pretty much the same as last year. Sales in the 20th- and 21st-century art category were down 2%, but luxury, significantly, was up 29%. The headline numbers were almost identical at Sotheby's, whose first-half sales raised $2.2bn, just slightly down on the $2.3bn in the equivalent period last year.
Artist Cheng Tsung FENG's creative practice is deeply tied to the preservation and reinterpretation of fading traditional crafts and cultural memories. For this monumental outdoor installation, his focus turned to the bamboo opera stage-a once-prevalent architectural form in Taiwan's temple festivals and communal celebrations, but now rarely seen as times have changed. At the historic Wenwu Temple in Lukang, Changhua, which itself has stood for over two centuries,
We've been swimming in the 1960s for decades, replaying the era like a classic-rock album. The artistic movements that came out of that time remain as fixed as the stars: Pop, minimalism, conceptualism, Land Art, feminism. Over the years, curators have mounted endless tributes to Warhol and his circle, Judd and his boxes, Hesse and her synthetic materials. Many of these artists are good, some great. But most of the shows border on boring.
I love how welcoming the Bay Area arts community is. As a self-taught artist, I didn't have much guidance on how to initiate my work being shown in galleries. I started by showing up at openings hoping to meet and engage with other artists. I've noticed how kind and supportive everyone has been, and I've made genuine friendships along the way,
The INBAL oversees Mexican heritage from the 20th century onward, managing 29 schools, 18 museums and several theatres. It was created in 2015, under the ministry of culture, to centralise cultural policy after years under the ministry of education. Budget cuts- including a projected 20% reduction for INBAL in 2026 -along with longstanding structural issues, have weakened the ministry of culture.
