Arte contemporanea e gioielli dialogano attraverso la luce. La mostra nella boutique Bvlgari a Roma

Bvlgari's historic Rome boutique on Via dei Condotti hosts "Corpi di Luce" (Bodies of Light), an exhibition curated by Daniele Finaroli in collaboration with the Fondazione Giuseppe Iannaccone. The show pairs contemporary artworks—paintings, photographs, and a sculpture by Kiki Smith—with Bvlgari jewelry, exploring light as an active substance that shapes body, landscape, and memory. Featured artists include Francesco Gennari, Federica Belli, Karen Kilimnik, Cindy Sherman, Roberto De Pinto, Tyler Mitchell, Caleb Hahne Quintana, Raqib Shaw, and Piero Guccione, with works drawn from Iannaccone's private collection and loans from the artists.

Artists' protest against the 'Visitor Lions' for the 2026 Venice Biennale intensifies

Si intensifica la protesta degli artisti contro i “Leoni dei Visitatori” per la Biennale di Venezia 2026

Over one hundred artists, collectives, curators, and national pavilion representatives have signed an open letter protesting the newly introduced "Leoni dei Visitatori" (Visitor Lions) at the 61st Venice Biennale. The protest follows the collective resignation of the International Jury on April 30, after the jury excluded Russia and Israel from competition due to International Criminal Court investigations. In response, the Biennale Foundation announced a popular voting system using ticket tracking to award the Visitor Lions, rather than appointing a new jury. The signatories argue this mechanism was rushed, lacks transparency, and politically sidesteps the reasons for the jury's resignation. They demand their names be removed from all voting materials and have threatened legal action if their concerns are not addressed.

The trolls come indoors as a Danish recycling artist stages his first museum exhibit

Danish recycling artist Thomas Dambo, known for creating nearly 200 wooden troll sculptures hidden in natural settings across 19 countries, is staging his first museum exhibition. Titled "The Garbage Man," the show opens at the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art near Copenhagen and runs until November 29. The exhibit imagines a group of mischievous trolls taking over the museum and building a giant human figure from trash as a cautionary tale about waste. Dambo, a former hip-hop artist and poet, began his troll project in 2014 and has since attracted millions of online viewers and an estimated 5 million annual visitors to his outdoor works.

The Beating Heart of Austin’s Artist-Run Independent Spaces: Five Interviews to Light Your Fire

This article profiles five artist-run independent spaces in Austin, Texas, as part of Glasstire's 25th anniversary series. The author interviews Zac Traeger of the Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA), Tim McCool from GoodLuckHaveFun Gallery, MASS Gallery's Beth Schindler and Ariel Wood, Erin Cunningham and Matt Rebholz from the ICOSA Collective, and Sean Gaulager for Co-Lab Projects. These spaces operate as alternatives to commercial galleries, thriving through community effort and financial uncertainty in a rapidly gentrifying city.

Une femme au balcon pour Carnavalet

The Musée Carnavalet in Paris has acquired a painting by Gustave Surand titled "Vue sur Les Halles ; côté du pavillon de la boucherie" (1890), depicting a woman on a balcony overlooking the now-demolished Les Halles market pavilions. The work was preempted at a Beaussant-Lefèvre auction on June 5 for €15,000 (excluding fees), thanks to sponsorship from the Fondation La Marck.

What Nicolas Winding Refn Learned When He Died and Came Back to Life

Nicolas Winding Refn, the film director known for *Drive* and *The Neon Demon*, premiered his first solo feature film in nine years, *Her Private Hell*, at Cannes and unveiled a new installation, *Satellites II*, alongside video game creator Hideo Kojima at the Hotel Chelsea for Prada Mode New York. The installation, a sequel to their 2025 piece *Satellites*, uses midcentury modern tube televisions to stage a conversation between the two artists, who have never spoken directly due to language barriers. Refn also reveals that he recently underwent heart surgery, dying on the operating table for 30 minutes, an experience that imbued him with a renewed urgency to create.

Tapisserie de Bayeux : une conférence de presse qui confirme toutes nos craintes

A press conference organized by the French Ministry of Culture confirmed plans to transport the Bayeux Tapestry to the United Kingdom, despite ongoing concerns about the risks to the fragile 11th-century textile. Officials including Culture Minister Catherine Pégard, regional president Hervé Morin, and UK special envoy Lord Peter Ricketts celebrated the loan as a success, dismissing critics as unjust. However, the article reveals that key details—such as the Channel crossing via Eurostar tunnel—remain undisclosed, and a test voyage in April failed to address critical unknowns about the tapestry's reaction to vibrations.

L'invité de La Tribune de l'Art n° 31 : Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie, conservateur général du patrimoine et directeur du Musée Jacquemart-André, est l'invité du 31e numéro de La Tribune de l'Art. Il y évoque sa riche carrière dans les musées et le domaine du patrimoine, notamment son passage de quatre ans au Petit Palais, son rôle actuel à la tête du Musée Jacquemart-André (qu'il dirigera encore un an avant de prendre sa retraite), ainsi que son expertise en restauration acquise au C2RMF, le Centre de restauration et de recherche des musées de France, où il a été en charge des peintures.

Raven Chacon: Scores for Coming Storms

Raven Chacon's first solo exhibition at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, "Scores for Coming Storms," runs from May 14 to June 20, 2026, in New York. The show features a layered installation of sonic and visual works, including a large graphite wall drawing, framed ink drawings, a sound installation, and a wall textile. Central to the exhibition is "American Ledger No. 1" (2018), a musical score for percussion and woodwinds that chronicles the origin story of the United States through Indigenous perspectives, alongside other works like "Tiguex" and "Volcano Choir" that map performances across Albuquerque's landscape.

Art Museum to Showcase Alumnus John Thompson in Manhattan Exhibition

The Syracuse University Art Museum presents “John Thompson ’72: Infinite Variation” at the Bernard and Louise Palitz Gallery in New York City through Sept. 29. The exhibition features works spanning Thompson’s entire career, from his student days at Syracuse to his most recent prints, highlighting his distinctive approach to printmaking. Unlike traditional printmakers who create new matrices for each print, Thompson re-uses existing matrices as building blocks, recombining and reimagining them across compositions—a method rooted in the experimental studio culture he encountered at Syracuse. The show emphasizes his sustained observation of nature, particularly gardens, grasses, stalks, and ponds.

Exhibition | Antone Könst, 'Antone Könst: Subjects' at Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan

Antone Könst presents 'Antone Könst: Subjects' at Each Modern gallery in Taipei, Taiwan. The exhibition showcases the artist's exploration of figuration and abstraction through a series of paintings that examine the human form as both subject and object.

Inside Yinka Ilori’s ‘Joy Through Resistance’, a powerful meditation on faith, family and diasporic resilience

Yinka Ilori presents his first solo gallery exhibition in London, titled 'Joy Through Resistance: He Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best', at Cristea Roberts Gallery. The show features new paintings, prints, sculpture, and an immersive sound installation that explores the roots of joy through themes of migration, faith, family, and diasporic resilience. Ilori draws on his Nigerian heritage and childhood memories of his parents' experiences as immigrants, particularly the role of the church as a site of community and resistance.

Exhibition | Mark Corfield-Moore, 'Swan Song' at Kate MacGarry, London, United Kingdom

Mark Corfield-Moore presents 'Swan Song', a solo exhibition at Kate MacGarry in London, United Kingdom. The show features new works by the artist, exploring themes of finality and transformation through painting and mixed media.

Contessa Gallery Dicusses David Drebin & ‘The Magic of You’

Contessa Gallery owner Contessa Tscherne discusses the gallery's long-standing relationship with artist David Drebin and his upcoming exhibition "The Magic of You," opening June 13 at the gallery's flagship location in Southampton. The exhibition features a curated selection of Drebin's photographs exploring desire, ambition, beauty, fantasy, and human connection, including the cover image "Shimmering Danger" from his Superstar Series.

Exhibition | Ravelle Pillay, 'Revisitations' at Goodman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Ravelle Pillay's solo exhibition 'Revisitations' is on view at Goodman Gallery in London, United Kingdom. The show presents a new body of work by the artist, exploring themes of memory, history, and personal narrative through visual art.

Exhibition | Federico Herrero, 'Caimitos' at Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany

Federico Herrero's exhibition 'Caimitos' is on view at Sies + Höke gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany. The show presents new works by the Costa Rican artist, known for his vibrant, abstract paintings that explore color, landscape, and tropical environments.

Where to see artworks in Marin

A comprehensive roundup of art exhibitions and events across Marin County, California, lists dozens of gallery and museum shows opening in June and July 2025. Venues include Continuum Fine Art Gallery, Bolinas Museum, Art Works Downtown, and Gallery Route One, featuring photographers like Nico van Dongen, painters like Saif Azzuz, and sculptors like Ian Collings. The article provides dates, locations, and reception details for each exhibition.

In an Ozempic-Suffused Scene, Brontez Purnell Embraces Being a ‘Fake Skinny Bitch’

Brontez Purnell, in a personal essay for Cultured's "Indulgence" issue, reflects on gluttony and his experience with weight-loss drugs. After a diabetes diagnosis, he began taking Mounjaro in 2024, losing 64 pounds in a month, then switched to Ozempic after losing insurance. He grapples with body dysmorphia, shifting gay beauty standards, and the moral implications of using GLP-1s, ultimately questioning whether Ozempic is a form of "elevated anti-gluttony."

A New Photo Book Sketches a New History of Queer Nightlife—and Where It Might Go Next

Amelia Abraham's new photo book, *Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife* (MACK, 2026), compiles decades of queer nightlife photography by image-makers including Lola Flash, Wolfgang Tillmans, Lyle Ashton Harris, Susan Kravitz, and Mohamad Abdouni. The volume pairs these images with essays and conversations by Legacy Russell, McKenzie Wark, and Brontez Purnell, exploring themes of visibility, risk, and community in spaces from saunas to drag shows to campgrounds. Abraham discusses the book with Cultured, drawing parallels between the camera's lens and the club as vehicles for self-expression and documentation.

Allegories: Marked by Memory

American artist Vaughn Spann presents 'Allegories', a solo exhibition at the Tampa Museum of Art featuring four monumental works from his 'Marked Men' series. The show runs until 5 July 2026 and uses abstraction, specifically a recurring X motif, to explore themes of race, surveillance, and collective memory, drawing from Spann's personal experiences of racial profiling.

Ecuador Pavilion: Tawna & Oscar

The article reviews the Ecuador Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, featuring the collaborative work of Tawna & Oscar, specifically the video piece 'Llaki' (2026) by the Tawana Collective. The author describes the pavilion as an emotionally explosive experience that accumulates memory, grief, tenderness, and politics rather than offering a conventional explanatory exhibition. The review highlights how the film resists Western narrative structures, instead inviting viewers to listen and feel its atmosphere, much like rain on different surfaces.

Professor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago Under Investigation for Referencing Palestine

Savneet Talwar, a tenured art therapy professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), has been suspended and is under investigation after assigning a graduate-level case study that mentioned Palestine. The assignment, for a course titled “Cultural Dimensions of Therapy,” asked students to develop a treatment plan for a hypothetical queer Muslim woman whose background included sympathy for the Palestinian cause. Following a student complaint, Talwar was placed on paid leave and warned that the assignment could constitute discrimination, harassment, or retaliation. Talwar has rejected the claims, and her attorney has filed a formal grievance arguing the suspension itself is discriminatory.

Artists create Fifa World Cup posters denouncing presence of US immigration agents

Artists from ten of the eleven US host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup have created posters for the 'No Ice in the Cup' initiative, launched on May 6 by the Horizons Project. The campaign aims to protest the potential presence of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at World Cup matches, using art to mobilize public opposition and protect vulnerable immigrant communities. Each poster incorporates locally relevant themes, with designs by artists including Chris Stewart (Los Angeles), Hana Natsuhara (Seattle), Johann C. Muñoz-Tapasco (Miami), and Cristy Road Carrera (New York). The posters are free to download and remix from the campaign's website.

Dutch Court Sentences Thieves in Explosive Museum Heist

A Dutch court has sentenced three men to 47 months in prison each for stealing Iron Age artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands. The heist occurred on January 25, 2025, when the thieves used explosives to break into the museum during the exhibition "Dacia—Empire of Gold and Silver." They stole three golden spiral bracelets and the Coțofenești helmet, a historic Geto-Dacian battle helmet made of electrum, all of which had been loaned by the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest. Two of the artifacts were recovered after a plea deal, but the third suspect rejected the deal, leading to a shorter sentence due to procedural issues.

Listening to Our Queer & Trans Elders

Hyperallergic kicks off its Pride Month series with an interview between Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia and British painter Jamie Nares. Nares, who came out as transgender in 2019 and changed her name in 2024, discusses embracing her identity as a trans woman, finding belonging in New York City, and her evolving artistic practice. The article also reports that Kalshi, a US government-regulated sports betting company, has launched an art market offshoot aimed at democratizing art investment, and that The New School in Manhattan has laid off 19 full-time faculty and 68 staff members due to a $160 million budget deficit.

‘Wear something that makes you feel silly!’ Can Austin Kleon’s tips put the spark back in my life?

Austin Kleon, author of *Steal Like an Artist* and other creativity guides, discusses his new book *Don't Call It Art* in an interview with The Guardian. Kleon, who felt creatively stagnant in his 40s, found renewed inspiration by apprenticing himself to his young sons, Owen and Jules. The book offers exercises and prompts to help adults recapture the playful, fearless creative energy of childhood, drawing on Kleon's own experience of watching his children make art without self-judgment or overthinking.

Hong Kong protests and the erasure of the individual – in pictures

Thadde Comar, a Franco-Swiss photographer, presents his documentary project "How Was Your Dream?" at the Belfast Photo Festival, which runs until 30 June. The work captures the 2019 extradition bill protests in Hong Kong, where over 10,000 people were arrested, focusing on the protesters' use of laser lights, anonymity, and other tactics to resist sophisticated state surveillance and control systems.

‘A soccer ball can bring great joy to two little kids’: Kuanglong Zhang’s best phone picture

Kuanglong Zhang, a resident of Shenzhen, China, captured a photograph of two brothers playing football in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. Using the telephoto lens on his phone, he composed the image to emphasize the contrast between the children and the yellow painted buildings, creating a balanced and clean composition. Zhang has been named the 2025 Mobile Photography awards’ photographer of the year for this work.

A New Sculpture Brings a Message of Unity to Beirut

A new stainless steel sculpture titled "SAWA" (2026) by father-son artist duo Pierre and Cedric Koukjian has been installed on the exterior of Beit Beirut, a museum and cultural center in the Lebanese capital. The building, located along the former Green Line that divided the city during the Lebanese Civil War, still bears visible scars from the conflict. The sculpture, whose name means "together" in Arabic, is made from hand-hammered stainless steel and is designed to reflect light and the surrounding landscape, serving as a metaphor for hope and unity.

How Nicolas Winding Refn and Hideo Kojima Turned Friendship Into an Art Installation

Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn and Japanese video game creator Hideo Kojima have collaborated on a new art installation titled "Satellites II," which debuted at New York's Hotel Chelsea as part of Prada Mode from June 3–7, 2026. The installation transforms the historic hotel into a space station with silver and cloud motifs, featuring pairs of retro-futuristic television sets that play footage of Refn and Kojima discussing connection, creativity, identity, and death in English and Japanese. This follows their first collaborative installation at Prada's Aoyama store in Tokyo in 2025, and the work draws on their decade-long friendship, which began after Kojima reached out to Refn following the release of "Drive" in 2011.