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• MAMCO Geneva Confronts Its Own Collection: Only 31% of Holdings Are by Women Artists exhibition

  The Musée Rath in Geneva is showcasing the Refaire collection alongside a retrospective of Welsh painter Sylvia Sleigh (1916-2010), organized by MAMCO and the Musée d'art et…

• MIT Faculty Bedazzle Campus Surveillance Cameras to Protest AI Monitoring institutional

  Since August, professors with tenure at MIT have adorned campus security cameras with googly eyes and tinsel in response to the university's increased surveillance measures. This…

• Miami Music Project Awarded 2026 Sony Music Group Global Social Justice Fund Grant award

  Miami Music Project has been named a recipient of a 2026 grant from the Sony Music Group Global Social Justice Fund, funding that will underwrite direct costs and expenses tied to…

• France Summons TikTok, eBay and Four Other Platforms Over Riot Content and Looted Goods digital

  This week, the French government called upon six online platforms to discuss the recent riots and looting. On Tuesday, Anne Le Hananff, the minister for digital affairs, convened…

• Minimal Eye Definition: Brow Grooming, Lash Lifts and Soft Liner Replace Heavy Makeup other

  To achieve defined eyes, one can use contrast along the lash line or create a subtle lift at the outer corners. The application should align with the natural shape of the eyes: a…

• Unfinished Lines Brings Four African Painters to San Francisco's Minnesota Street Project exhibition

  "Unfinished Lines," an exhibition featuring artists Papytsho Mafolo, Hussein Salim, Pascal Konan, and Aza Mansongi, is hosted by Art of Contemporary Africa (AOCA) in collaboration…

• Ukraine's Mine Crisis: Civilians Clear Fields as Demining Lags other

  Olena Kabanova, 58, kneels in a weed-choked field and digs. Using a shovel and a steady hand, she cuts a clean square around a spot where a mine detector has flagged a suspicious…

• DxO ViewPoint 6 Adds AI Masking for Local Perspective Correction digital

  DxO has just launched ViewPoint 6, their latest and most sophisticated tool for correcting perspectives. This version introduces AI masking technology, which automates the…

• New York Bridal Fashion Week Fall 2027: 126 Looks Spanning Classic Gowns and High-Fashion Experimentation festival-fair

  During New York Bridal Fashion Week, Elie Saab unveiled his fall 2027 bridal collection titled "Light of Lucèce," which coincides with the opening of a flagship store in Paris in…

• Jordan Roth Brings His West Village Apartment to Paris Art Week at Hôtel de Guise exhibition

  Broadway producer Jordan Roth, known for backing Angels in America, The Book of Mormon, Kinky Boots, Hadestown and Moulin Rouge!, has installed his first functional design and…

• Xin Huang's Goldsmiths MFA Show Explores Maintenance and Neglect exhibition

  During the 2026 Goldsmiths MFA degree exhibition, Xin Huang showcased her installation titled Maintenance Access, which includes an air duct, a ladder, and a net filled with…

• Princess of Wales Wears Alexander McQueen Coat and Chanel Bag for Sultan of Oman's State Visit other

  Catherine, the Princess of Wales, welcomed the Sultan of Oman to Windsor Castle on the first day of his three-day state visit, wearing a bottle-green Alexander McQueen coat and a…

• Salewski Nater Kretz: Zurich Architecture and Urbanism Studio Founded in 2022 architecture-design

  Founded in 2022, Salewski Nater Kretz is an international architecture and urbanism practice headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Christian Salewski, Christina Nater and Simon…

• Computer Analysis Confirms Shakespeare as Principal Author of Edward III, with Marlowe as Co-Writer publication

  A study conducted by Dr. Rory Loughnane and Brett Greatley-Hirsch has established that William Shakespeare is the main author of the 1596 play Edward III, with Christopher Marlowe…

• Rob Brydon Initially Resisted Playing Himself in The Trip, Now Stars in Season Five Set in Scandinavia other

  Rob Brydon, 61, said he and Steve Coogan were both opposed when director Michael Winterbottom first proposed that they play heightened versions of themselves in The Trip. Speaking…

• Costume Art at the Met: 400 Objects, $10 Million from Bezos, and 12 Body Types exhibition

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has unveiled its new Condé Nast Galleries, showcasing Andrew Bolton's Costume Art. This expansive 1,100-square-meter venue opened on 14…

• Muda Prefab's M38 House: A 38 m² Prefabricated Home That Doubles as Its Own Showroom architecture-design

  Muda Prefab has completed the M38 House, a 38 m² prefabricated residence whose first unit stands inside the workshop where it was manufactured. Rather than being shipped to a…

• Desai Chia Architecture Designs Chatham Pond Pavilion as Upstate New York Wildlife-Viewing Station architecture-design

  Desai Chia Architecture, a studio based in the United States, has completed the Chatham Pond Pavilion on private land in Upstate New York. The structure serves as a station for…

• Tanya Pokoti Stages a Wedding Story in an Old Kyiv Apartment for KALTBLUT publication

  Photographer and creative director Tanya Pokoti shot a wedding-themed editorial titled "Till Death Do Us Part" as a KALTBLUT exclusive. The setting is an old Kyiv apartment that…

• CLLC's Limen Bar Brings Postmodern-Inspired Design to Oranj During Frieze Week, Then Paris architecture-design

  During Frieze Week, the Limen Bar, curated by design gallerist Max Radford, took over the Oranj natural wine bar in East London for a week. The bar, crafted by the Paris-based…

• Sotheby’s Turns Rue de Rivoli Apartment Into 'Chez Sotheby’s' for Art Basel Paris Week market-auction

  Sotheby’s will host a selling exhibition in a private residence at 242 Rue de Rivoli, Paris, from October 19 to 24, 2026, perfectly timed with Art Basel Paris week. The event will…

• Architecture Photography MasterPrize Names 2026 Winners, With Hong Kong Facades and a Kanazawa Library Taking Top Titles award

  At the 2026 Architecture Photography MasterPrize (APMP), Derry Ainsworth received the award for Exterior Architecture Photography of the Year for his work titled Hong Kong Modern…

• Angel Fux's "The Shadow Between" Blends Seven Panoramas of Spain's 2026 Total Solar Eclipse other

  Seven panoramas shot over several hours at Pico Gilbo in northern Spain form the backbone of Angel Fux's composite photograph The Shadow Between, built around the total solar…

• Brewster Kahle Argues the Internet Forgets — and Why That Matters digital

  Brewster Kahle makes the case that the web's supposed permanence is an illusion. The common belief that anything published online stays retrievable — the idea that "the internet…

• DreamWorks' « L'Ile des souvenirs » Centers Female Friendship in Philippine-Inspired Fantasy other

  DreamWorks has released « L'Ile des souvenirs », a large-scale animated production whose story follows two heroines, Jo and Raissa, through a supernatural world drawn from…

• Fujifilm Pours 3 Billion Yen Into Instax Film Lines at Kanagawa Plant other

  A second major Instax expansion in under a year is underway at Fujifilm Corporation, which will direct 3 billion yen — roughly $19 million at prevailing exchange rates — toward…

• Trinchera Reserve & Lodge Opens 172,000 Acres of Colorado Wilderness With Taos Society and N.C. Wyeth Art cultural-heritage

  This summer, conservation philanthropist Louis Bacon has made Trinchera Reserve & Lodge accessible to the public. Located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of southern Colorado,…

• Design Observer Editor Draws Inclusion Lessons From Ban Johnson's American League and Wesleyan Fraternities opinion-review

  In her newsletter The Observatory, Ellen McGirt, editor-in-chief of Design Observer, posits that inclusion serves as a design limitation, drawing parallels with baseball's past…

• Hélia Paukner Named Director of macLYON and Lyon Biennale institutional

  Hélia Paukner has just been named the new director of macLYON and the artistic director for the Lyon Biennale, stepping in for Isabelle Bertolotti, who has been in these roles…

• Lawrence Lessig Marks 50 Years of the 1976 Copyright Act With a Warning on AI and "Zombie Copyright" opinion-review

  On the fiftieth anniversary of the 1976 Copyright Act, legal expert Lawrence Lessig emphasized that the legislation now impacts nearly everyone, including AI. Originally designed…

• Luca Aigner on Dance, Discipline and Coming Out After Troye Sivan's 'Rush' artist

  Born in 2003 and raised in Bavaria, Luca Aigner has danced since the age of six, when his mother enrolled him in a hip-hop class in his village. He moved to Berlin and Los Angeles…

• Vogue Birding Shoot in Acadia National Park Taps Ornithologist Michael Good other

  The Vogue team traveled to Bar Harbor, Maine, for a unique fashion shoot that combined birdwatching with style. Models Ana Beatriz Cortes, Betsy Gaghan, and Sunday Rose showcased…

• New Wave of Theater, Film, and Literature Revisits the AIDS Epidemic other

  A surge of new theater, film, literature, and other art addressing the AIDS crisis is driven by a sense of mission, according to T — The New York Times Style Magazine. Much of…

• Mikio Sakabe Stages Swimsuit Show at La Foret Harajuku for Tokyo Spring 2027 other

  Mikio Sakabe presented his Tokyo Spring 2027 collection at La Foret, the teen-oriented mall in Harajuku, framing it as a "swimsuit show held in a shopping mall." Japanese gravure…

• Freitag Essay: Linke Debatten über die Eskalation der Schülerproteste in Frankreich am 17. und 18. Oktober opinion-review

  In einem Beitrag für die Wochenzeitung Der Freitag setzt sich die Autorin Marlen Hobrack mit der linken Rezeption der sogenannten Schülerproteste in Frankreich auseinander, die am…

• FASO Marks 25 Years With Rebuilt Image Servers, New Dashboard and Artist Society Plans digital

  A live broadcast on October 8 marked 25 years of FASO, the artist-website platform founded by Clint Watson, who built its original codebase and serves as CEO. Engineering manager…

• Social Staircases Turn Museums Into Third Spaces, From the Met Steps to M+ architecture-design

  Tiered seating has transitioned from being a feature at museum entrances to becoming integral to their interiors. This trend originated in 1967 with Kevin Roche's comprehensive…

• Le Monde Launches Route 66 Series From Chicago Ahead of US Midterms publication

  Le Monde has kicked off a six-part series called “Route 66, pouls de l'Amérique,” marking the 100th anniversary of the iconic highway and timed just ahead of the upcoming US…

• Study Finds Coast Redwoods Halt Photosynthesis During Heat Waves other

  Research published on September 22 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences indicates that coast redwoods, the tallest trees on the planet, might halt photosynthesis…

• LeBron and Savannah James Open Los Angeles Home, Showcasing Basquiat's 'Minor Success' other

  In the video series "Objects of Affection" by Vogue, LeBron and Savannah James provided a glimpse into their Los Angeles residence, featuring a Jean-Michel Basquiat artwork named…