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Alex Prager has created "Mirage Factory," an immersive installation inside a former Miami Beach cinema that pays tribute to her hometown of Los Angeles while critiquing its illusions. The installation features meticulously crafted sets, a new photograph, and a dining experience by chef Dave Beran, alongside a live performance by Diana Ross. It opened with private events for Capital One cardholders and the Cultivist art club, and is now public through December 4, with proceeds benefiting Heal the Bay.

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Artist Sayre Gomez has opened a new solo exhibition titled "Precious Moments" at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles. The show features paintings of gritty urban landscapes alongside sculptures of his own children, modeled after Precious Moments collectible figurines, dressed in the kids' actual clothes and placed in the gallery's rafters.

Chicago: Model City by Mark Acciari

Native Chicagoan architect and artist Mark Acciari reflects on the architectural identity of Chicago from the distance of Mexico City. Using the iconic imagery of a Chicago-style hot dog as a metaphor for the city's construction, he explores how the city's legacy is often reduced to the 'skeleton frame' of early modernism by critics, while ignoring its more playful, symbolic, and postmodernist undercurrents.

Henrike Naumann (1984–2026): Domestic Responsibilities

The article is a personal reflection on the work and legacy of artist Henrike Naumann, who passed away in 2026. The author, a peer from West Germany, contrasts their own upbringing with Naumann's East German background, detailing how Naumann's practice critically examined the domestic interiors and built environments of post-war Germany to explore the social and political responsibilities embedded within everyday objects and art's role as "stage design" in a fascist-leaning society.

The Interview: Sea Art Festival 2025

The 2025 Sea Art Festival, titled 'Undercurrents: Waves Walking on the Water,' is co-directed by Keumhwa Kim and Bernard Vienat, who were selected through an international open call. The biennial returns to Dadaepo Beach in Busan, South Korea, focusing on outdoor installations and sculptures that engage with the natural landscape and local communities. Kim, founder of Keum Art Projects, and Vienat, founder of art-werk and leader of the (re)connecting.earth biennial, emphasize collaboration with scientists such as paleontologists and bioacoustic researchers to highlight invisible ecological and social structures.

‘He always had spirituality’: Spanish exhibition unpicks Picasso's religious influences

The cathedral of Burgos in Spain is hosting "Picasso: Biblical Roots," the first-ever exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work to be held within a cathedral setting. Featuring 44 works, the show explores how the artist’s Catholic upbringing and religious iconography influenced his oeuvre, despite his self-proclaimed atheism. The exhibition includes early devotional paintings, Renaissance-inspired depictions of the Crucifixion, and secular adaptations of the Virgin and Child and the Good Shepherd.

New art exhibition on memory, landscape and emotion opens in Andover

A new art exhibition titled 'Undercurrent' has opened at Unity Art Studio in the Chantry Centre, Andover, running until May 16, 2026. The show features abstract works by artist Caroline Perkins, a Royal College of Art graduate and QEST Scholar, that explore themes of memory, landscape, deep time, and emotional experience.