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Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
8 hours ago

JL Residence / Kiko Castello Branco Arquitetura + Lucas Cunha

The JL Residence features two independent volumes connected by a metal structure, emphasizing lightness, transparency, and integration with the landscape.
#brazilian-cinema
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago
Independent films

Wagner Moura, Oscar nominee: We're in a very ugly time, even I am afraid of running into ICE'

Wagner Moura stars in The Secret Agent, a political thriller about 1970s Brazilian dictatorship that earned him a Cannes best actor award and an Oscar nomination.
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago
Film

The Brazilian Director Who's Up for Multiple Oscars

Kleber Mendonça Filho uses film to reclaim Recife's lost history, exposing concealed social truths through memory, political critique, and genre-inflected art-house cinema.
NYC LGBT
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

It's the year of gay Brazilian cruising!' The makers of Night Stage on public sex and their deranged erotic thriller'

Two Brazilian films featuring gay cruising scenes highlight the tension between personal identity and societal expectations.
Independent films
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Brazilian cinema has high hopes of making Oscar history

Brazil seeks a second consecutive Oscar for Best Picture with The Secret Agent, potentially winning three awards across categories, marking unprecedented success for Brazilian cinema.
Photography
fromThe Nation
3 days ago

Alejandro Cartagena's Mexico in Flux

Photographs capture the transformation of landscapes and suburban growth, reflecting themes of isolation and environmental change.
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

How can you forget me': show details Filipino Americans' rich history

The exhibition showcases the lives and stories of Filipino migrants, emphasizing their humanity beyond labor history.
fromArchDaily
6 days ago

Choreographing Lagos: Dele Adeyemo on Dance, Cosmology, and Spatial Practices

Eshu's proverb tells both a story of reparation and of ancestrality by joyfully bending spacetime conventions and accessing subjects from the past with present actions.
Social justice
SOMA, SF
fromJuxtapoz
1 week ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Cinga Samson "Ukuphuthelwa" @ White Cube Gallery, NYC

Cinga Samson's exhibition 'Ukuphuthelwa' explores sleeplessness as spiritual alertness through paintings that reflect on the nature of representation and symbols.
Photography
fromColossal
4 days ago

Street Artists Take On Monumental Infrastructure in 'Impossible' Photos

Joseph Ford's Impossible Street Art series combines photography and street art to engage with monumental infrastructure and energy production sites.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Dodging the wrinkle wagon': why a Brazilian film about ageing is inspiring older women

The film 'The Blue Trail' addresses ageism and the resilience of older women in Brazil through its protagonist's journey of self-discovery.
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 week ago

Video: The Aching Power of Abraham Vazquez

Abraham Vazquez has this lusty, powerful, aching voice. This song is about loss, and you feel it with every inch of intensity that he's performing.
Music
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 week ago

Sound of the Week: CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso - FREE SPIRITS - KALTBLUT Magazine

The album showcases an audacious blend of trap, rock, pop, and experimental elements, all infused with a refreshing emotional honesty.
Music production
fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 weeks ago

Illustrator Spotlight: Cezar Berje

Cezar Berje's visual approach is a mix of chaos-vibrant colours, symbols, and new age psychedelia. His illustrations often suggest universes within universes, with each part of the image telling its own story through symbols and references.
Graphic design
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 week ago

Frisson Cultural Space / On Form Studio

Frisson is a hybrid cultural space in Rome, combining a listening bar, bakery, and cultural platform to support music and artistic production.
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 weeks ago

Taller Agropoetico - Foresta Collective / Atelier Poem

In Cabranes, Asturias, Atelier Poem has realized the Taller Agropoetico for Foresta Collective—a space that integrates agricultural practice with pedagogy.
Agriculture
Arts
fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Pejac Transforms Basic Graph Paper into Detailed, Trompe-L'il Tableaux

Artist Pejac uses graph paper's geometric grid to create trompe-l'œil illusions that challenge spatial perception and explore depth and movement beyond traditional two-dimensional representation.
Portland food
fromFuncheap
3 weeks ago

Studio 23 Gallery Art Of The African Diaspora

Studio 23 Gallery hosts the 3rd Annual Art Of The African Diaspora collaborative group show with Resistance Press 510 from March 21 to April 18, 2026, featuring multiple artists and free admission.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
2 weeks ago

The identity for Spatial festival feels aptly three-dimensional

Motion was integrated as a foundational design element rather than an afterthought, creating a dynamic, three-dimensional brand identity that responds to physical and digital spaces.
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

When a Palestinian Artist Asserts Her Own Humanity

There is a scene in "Morgenkreis | Morning Circle" (2025), a 16-mm film by Berlin-based Palestinian artist Basma al-Sharif, that unfolds at the threshold of a daycare center. A young boy clings to his father, his fists locked into the fabric of his coat, his arms wrapped tightly around him. The father gently tries to pry himself free while a daycare worker crouches nearby, attempting to distract the child and coax him inside. It is an ordinary moment, one that anyone who has ever been a child - or cared for one - recognizes instantly, as well as the gut-wrenching feeling it provokes.
Arts
Graphic design
fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Myth, Masks, and LEGO: Ekow Nimako's Elaborate Afrofuturistic Sculptures

Ekow Nimako creates Afrofuturistic sculptures from black LEGO bricks, exploring African diaspora mythology, folklore, and spiritual traditions through figurative and allegorical forms.
#contemporary-art
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Amazing Psychedelic Digital Artworks By Argentinian Artist Juan Brufal

A diverse roundup of contemporary visual art and creative projects spanning photography, illustration, sculpture, digital manipulation, and cultural commentary.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

John Wilson Bears Witness

Artists and institutions use creative practice to confront authoritarianism, preserve public memory, and build communal resilience during fraught social moments.
Arts
fromBerlin Art Link
2 weeks ago

An Interview with Igshaan Adams | Berlin Art Link

South African artist Igshaan Adams translates memory into physical matter through installations, textiles, and performances that weave spirit and remembrance into materials like cotton, plastic, and stone.
Arts
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
3 weeks ago

Celebrate the Unconventional: Discover Fernando Carpaneda's Solo Exhibition at the Arkell Museum - KALTBLUT Magazine

Fernando Carpaneda's solo exhibition at the Arkell Museum showcases expressive portraiture celebrating LGBTQIA+ narratives and everyday urban life through vibrant acrylic paintings.
Music production
fromItsnicethat
3 weeks ago

This music video captures the spirit of jazz drumming with musical glyphs and a nod to synesthesia

A visual film explores jazz music by assigning shapes to different drum sounds, creating a synesthetic experience where music transforms into colors and graphics.
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
3 weeks ago

ASA Sandra and Albano Studio / 23 SUL

An artist couple's 210-square-meter studio designed by Pedro Kok + 32 Architects combines individual workspaces with a social gathering area, completed in 2023.
Arts
fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Inside the First Edition of Conductor: The Art Fair of the Global Majority

Conductor: Art Fair of the Global Majority debuts April 30-May 3, 2026, centering artists from Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Oceania, and Indigenous nations historically underrepresented in New York's art market.
Renovation
fromArchDaily
3 weeks ago

Tamanas House / Atelie Amanha

Casa Tamanás uses strategic cuts in its built volume to frame landscape views and integrate architecture with the sloped terrain and existing vegetation.
Music production
fromThe Verge
4 weeks ago

Listen to this: Mabe Fratti's experimental cello pop

Mabe Fratti's 2024 album Sentir Que No Sabes blends new age, industrial, and folk elements into cohesive pop-influenced experimental music.
Berlin music
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 month ago

Unveil the Pulse of Memory: Filipp Jenikae's Visual Symphony at Galerie Sara Lily Perez - %

Filipp Jenikäe's exhibition explores how urban spectacle, collective memory, and personal experience merge through dynamic paintings of cities, crowds, and athletic figures.
fromItsnicethat
3 weeks ago

Braulio Amado on why there is unlimited inspiration in the world, if only we become "crazy enough to look for it"

Braulio gives the crowd an incredible insight into a decade's worth of poster designs for Good Room, revealing how he finds inspiration in the most mundane things just by paying attention to what has 'already been designed' and remixing it into something new.
Design
Design
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 weeks ago

Sao Paulo pop-up exhibition spotlights spherical home by architect Eduardo Longo

The fifth edition of an annual art, architecture, and design exhibition opens in São Paulo, featuring six galleries, over 50 artists, and newly commissioned works across two landmarks including a spherical home designed by architect Eduardo Longo.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

'Architectural Fantasies' Chronicles Elaborate Creations by Self-Taught Artists

Self-taught artists across the U.S. create distinctive vernacular environments using salvaged and found materials, driven by spiritual fervor and personal vision.
Film
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

This Brazilian Oscar contender has the best acting you'll see in 2026

The Secret Agent portrays Brazil's 1977 military dictatorship through hallucinatory pulp-horror, blending political thriller, grotesque surrealism, and dark comedy centered on a vengeful disembodied limb.
Travel
fromTravel + Leisure
2 months ago

This Street Was Just Named the Coolest in the World-and It's Full of Art, Samba, and Seriously Good Food

Rua do Senado in Rio de Janeiro is the world's coolest street for 2026, celebrated for its vibrant food, drink, culture, nightlife, and community.
#latin-america
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

'We're the Tijuana of the tent': non-profit Ambos's stand at Frieze Los Angeles is relocated

We were supposed to be Frieze's special guests. And we feel like we're being censored, racially profiled and discriminated against. Having worked with the fair for five years, she says she will not continue beyond this weekend.
Arts
World news
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

How Rio de Janeiro's famous carnival rescued the human scale of the city

Carnival rehearsals and blocos transform Rio's streets into vibrant pedestrian spaces, mobilizing millions, reshaping urban life, and revitalizing neighborhoods.
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Fabiano Do Nascimento & Vittor Santos Orquestra: Vila review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month

Fabiano do Nascimento combines virtuosic fingerpicked guitar with Vittor Santos's 16-piece orchestral arrangements to create lush, percussive, bossa-influenced instrumental music on Vila.
fromThesanjoseblog
2 months ago

Invisible Skies: A Flash Art Spectacle at San Jose City Hall

San Jose is hosting Invisible Skies, a free flash art event set for January 31, 2026, at City Hall on East Santa Clara Street in Downtown San Jose. Umbrella distribution starts at 5:30 PM, with the main activity kicking off at 6:30 PM once the sky darkens. This gathering will turn the plaza into a canvas for communal creativity, open to all ages and designed to last about two hours.
California
Arts
fromMiami Herald
1 month ago

Carlos Alfonzo and Belkis Ayon Unite in 'Odyssey' at Freedom Tower

Two significant 20th-century Cuban artists, Carlos Alfonzo and Belkis Ayón, are exhibited together for the first time at Freedom Tower, revealing shared interests in mythology and artistic influences despite their stylistic differences.
History
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Japanese-Brazilians: the intimate relationship between two very different cultures

Japanese-Brazilians form a large, culturally blended community rooted in early 20th-century immigration, shaped by labor needs, racial policies, and wartime persecution.
Remodel
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 months ago

Flamboyant House / Juliana Camargo + Prumo projetos

The Flamboyant House integrates an existing L-shaped house, pool, and flamboyant tree as structuring elements that guide placement, volumetry, and spatial organization.
Arts
fromLondon Unattached
1 month ago

Beatriz Gonzalez - Barbican Art Gallery Review

Beatriz González was a groundbreaking Colombian artist whose work explored power, grief, and memory through painting, sculpture, assemblages, and installations spanning six decades.
Film
fromBerlin Art Link
1 month ago

Interview with Karimah Ashadu | Berlin Art Link

Tendered centers on MUSCLE, exploring Nigerian masculinity's ties to labor, class, patriarchy and colonial afterlives through intimate cinematic focus on Black male bodies.
Photography
from48 hills
2 months ago

At SFMOMA, Alejandro Cartagena's photographs strike deep community chords - 48 hills

The 'Carpoolers' series documents Monterrey residents riding in pickup truck beds, capturing everyday life and workers amid cartel violence.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

Hannah Krafcik's 'Between Frames' culminates in a spiraling consideration of frame and time * Oregon ArtsWatch

Printed in both color and black and white, images of dancers and friends took the form of abstract portraits, movement series, and pseudo-stop-motion, featuring local artists including Sophia Ahmed, Muffie Delgado-Connelly, Kenny Frechette, Takahuro Yamamoto, Emily Jones, Allie Hankins, performances by Lu Yim, and others. Layered, dark, and moody self-portraits of Krafcik from 2025 also plastered a dark-painted wall opposite some of the other images.
Photography
#belonging
Film
fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

Bronx filmmaker spotlights Jamaican Diaspora stories | amNewYork

Dante Hillmedo centers Bronx Caribbean immigrant experiences in film, teaching himself videography and building Team Elite Productions to portray Black and Caribbean stories authentically.
Design
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Eduardo Longo's Futuristic Ball-Shaped House in Sao Paulo to Open for ABERTO5 Exhibition

Casa Bola opens to the public 7 March–31 May 2026 in São Paulo as part of ABERTO5, showcasing Eduardo Longo's radical spherical domestic architecture.
#site-specific-installation
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

New Exhibition Brings Viewers Inside the Creative World of Andy Scott

In 2014, Scottish artist Andy Scott made international headlines with the unveiling of his colossal dual horse-head sculptures, The Kelpies. Completed in late 2013, they are installed in the Helix park in Flakirk, Scotland, and each of the steel heads measures 98-feet high and weighs in at a whopping 300 tons. The works have become iconic in their own right, but also exemplary of Scott's practice, which takes focus on animal forms and employs the visually and thematically weighty materials of steel or bronze.
Arts
#adaptive-reuse
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

Itamar Gov Draws on History and Legend for 'The Rhinoceros in the Room'

A towering inflatable rhinoceros occupies a medieval church nave, referencing Dürer's inaccurate 1515 woodcut and reflecting themes of power, memory, myth, and endangered wildlife.
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 months ago

TAA Gallery / TAA DESIGN

A resonant architectural gallery where art is created, exhibited, individually lit, and exhibitions are given the freedom to take shape.
fromColossal
2 months ago

Regina Silveira Pieces Together an Evolving Narrative of Latin America

Regina Silveira has spent the better part of three decades considering the relationship between media and meaning, particularly as it relates to Latin America. First presented in 1997, "To Be Continued..." features 100 black-and-white reproductions of photos, newspaper clippings, propaganda, advertisements, and more. Silveira nests each image into an oversized puzzle piece, which cuts off faces and scenes to leave fragments of pop culture icons, flora and fauna, and even the occasional mugshot spliced next to one another.
Arts
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

We Must Do More Than Simply Depict Our Lives

The Bronx Museum biennial spotlights representational works that center urban youth and marginalized identities, challenging mainstream narratives through sincere, everyday portrayals.
fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

Inside Lee Broom's Latin American Exhibition at Diez Company

Now, he celebrates his first major presentation in Latin America, in congruence with Mexico City Art Week 2026 and ZSONAMACO, showcasing on an ideal stage inside one of the city's most architecturally layered interiors. Titled The Resident, the site-responsive installation, created during a residency at the Diez Company house, transforms the historic showroom into an immersive tableau where more than 50 works negotiate the boundaries between collectible design, contemporary art, and spatial theater.
Design
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

How Wifredo Lam Made Surrealism More Surreal Than the Surrealists | Artnet News

An exhibition of Wifredo Lam is about as safe a bet as the Museum of Modern Art can place and still plausibly say that it's a bet on expanding the canon. The Cuban artist is one of the most famous painters of the 20th century, featured in almost every single key show about Surrealism. MoMA acquired his famous painting The Jungle in 1946, a few years after he made it.
Arts
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 months ago

House_JA / eOp arquitectura e design

Three-floor house in Vila Nova de Gaia uses the slope to organize levels and access, maximizing views of sea, Douro estuary, Douro River and Porto.
Arts
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

San Jose artist brings wind, light to bear in her paintings

Ayelet Gal-On's layered textured paintings of white dresses capture wind and light; her solo exhibition runs March 3–29 at Gallery 9 in Los Altos.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Black Artists Create New Universes in "Unbound"

Unbound at MoAD connects African and diasporic artistic practices to cosmology, ancestral ritual, and futuristic imaginaries through sculpture, photography, and painting.
Arts
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

San Jose artist brings wind, light to bear in her paintings

Ayelet Gal-On presents layered white-dress paintings conveying wind and light; San Mateo County Libraries seeks a Maker in Residence for a six-month STEAM residency.
fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
2 months ago

Pedro Pedro transforms The Everyday into Vibrant Inanimate Portraits - Hi-Fructose Magazine

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. My studio is across the street from Creative Woodworking and they have a box where they put scrap wood for anyone who wants it and it's irresistible to me.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

The African Diaspora Pictures Itself

Walking through Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imaginationat the Museum of Modern Art, I noticed that the exhibition didn't have definite sections or texts, and the wall labels abstained from naming the nationalities of the photographers. It was an invigorating experience to be in a show that eschews geographic boundaries set up by Western nations, as well as rejects a cause-and-effect narrative that centers Western colonialism as a framework for understanding African aesthetic production.
Arts
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

radical and spherical 'casa bola' to host upcoming sao paulo exhibition ABERTO5

For ABERTO5, the itinerant exhibition series is set to open next month at Casa Bola, Eduardo Longo's spherical residence in São Paulo, opening the architect's private home to the public as the setting for its fifth edition. From March 7th to May 31st, 2026, ABERTO returns to Brazil after its Paris chapter at Le Corbusier's Maison La Roche (read more here) and shifts its attention to one of the city's most unique dwellings.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

Amoako Boafo Weaves His Portraiture into an Architectural Replica of His Accra Studio

Although this truism is typically offered as a negative, it can also be read as a positive that provides comfort and stability amid new environments. In I Bring Home with Me, Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo recreates his Accra studio in an architectural reproduction within Roberts Projects ' Los Angeles gallery. Boafo is known for his stylized portraiture of Black people, whose skin the artist renders in swirling gestures made with his fingers.
Arts
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Joiri Minaya: Venus Flytrap

Joiri Minaya created Venus Flytrap, a site-specific performance series and installation at Bartram's Garden exploring freedom, extraction, ecology, and diasporic experience.
Arts
fromBerlin Art Link
1 month ago

Review of Colomboscope 'Rhythm Alliances' | Berlin Art Link

Colomboscope's 'Rhythm Alliances' used cultural diplomacy and a Berlin–Colombo network to convene 50 South Asian artists, fostering fragile creative alliances and collective resistance.
fromThesanjoseblog
1 month ago

Shared Arts Center Coming to Downtown San Jose

A new chapter unfolds for the arts in San Jose as Starting Arts prepares to relocate to two vacant buildings in the North San Pedro District this May. The nonprofit, dedicated to student arts programs, will transform a former courthouse and MMA gym into a vibrant hub called The Shared Arts Center of San Jose. Spanning 25,000 square feet at 99 Notre Dame Avenue and 92 Sharks Way, this space addresses the long-standing need for affordable venues where creative groups can thrive together.
Arts
fromCurbed
2 months ago

The Cuban House of Spirits

The artists José Parlá and Claudia Hilda, his wife, live in a former fire station in Fort Greene surrounded by memories of Cuba, which Parlá's ­family fled in 1970 and where ­Hilda lived until recently. "There's a lot of magical realism here, a big mix of Cuban traditions and religion," says Parlá, pointing to an icon of la Caridad del Cobre, the island's patron saint, in the kitchen. "We cannot move her!"
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