Category: Art

Manuel Alvarez Diestro captures Seas of Construction   In Seas of Construction, photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro documents urban development across China and South Korea through a visual study of construction sites. The photography series focuses on large-scale temporary coverings, green and blue fabrics draped over terrains, that serve both functional and aesthetic roles during the […]

First Fully Artist-Painted Rocket Successfully Launched Into Orbit   A collaborative project between contemporary artist Jacky Tsai and Chinese aerospace company LandSpace has resulted in the successful launch of the world’s first fully art-painted orbital rocket. The Zhuque-2 Enhanced (ZQ-2E Y2), measuring nearly 50 meters in height, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center […]

tokyo sees the opening of ‘100 colors no.53’   ‘100 colors no.53,’ the latest installment in Emmanuelle Moureaux’s ongoing ‘100 colors path’ series, has opened at Takanawa Gateway City in Tokyo. Composed of 2,400 vertical lines, each rendered in one of 100 precisely selected colors, the work is both a spatial structure and a temporal […]

Anna & Eugeni Bach installs blue ring in barcelona’s mnac   Anna & Eugeni Bach completes Crown of Eyes, an installation hovering six meters above the central hall of Barcelona’s Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC). The twelve-meter-wide, celestial blue ring is suspended as a contemporary tribute to Francesc d’Assís Galí (1880–1965), one of Catalonia’s […]

emst hosts major show on animal rights and multispecies ethics   Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives transforms the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens into a stage for over 60 international artists grappling with one of the most urgent ethical questions of our time: how do […]

Olafur Eliasson’s Long Daylight Pavilion Opens in Helsinki   Long daylight pavilion, a new permanent public artwork by Olafur Eliasson has been unveiled along the rocky waterfront of eastern Helsinki‘s Kruunuvuorenranta district. The site-specific installation functions as both an architectural intervention and a celestial marker, aligning precisely with the arc of the sun on the […]

artmeta 2025 arrives in basel   From June 16 to 22, 2025, Basel becomes home to the inaugural edition of Digital Art Mile— a new and ambitious initiative by ArtMeta that transforms the historic Rebgasse district into a vibrant epicenter for digital creativity. This week-long event runs in parallel with Art Basel and offers a […]

Frankey Blows Up the Streetscape with ‘Hubbabubbabuilding’   Dutch street artist Frankey unveils Hubbabubbabuilding, a new bubblegum-inspired sculpture perched atop a roof on the Zandvoort promenade in the Netherlands. The site-specific installation features a 4-meter-tall caricature of Frankey himself, balanced on a ladder and blowing an enormous bubble of pink chewing gum that appears to […]

ernesto neto brings woven architecture to paris   Ernesto Neto has filled the Nef Nord of Paris‘s Grand Palais with a vast, handwoven installation of bark, earth, spice, and fiber. Nosso Barco Tambor Terra invites visitors into a soft and sensory architecture, suspended beneath the glass and iron canopy recently restored by Chatillon Architectes (see designboom’s […]

an Immersive aquatic soundscape at THE Bourse de Commerce   The Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce in Paris transforms into a mesmerizing aquatic and musical landscape with the unveiling of clinamen, an immersive installation by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. On view until September 21st, 2025, and curated by Emma Lavigne, General Director of the […]