Artists Scramble to Rescue Works After Queens Building Fire

By Aaron ShortJune 9, 2026

Linda Ganjian worked to salvage pieces from water damage after a blaze erupted in the Long Island City building where she and Ilan Averbach had studios.

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Julio Le Parc, Father of Interactive Art, Dies at 97

Franco-Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, whose innovations in kinetic and Op art presaged the interactive art of today, died in Paris on May 30. He was ninety-seven. His death was confirmed to Argentinian newspaper La Nación by his son Yamil. Le Parc was the last surviving cofounding member of the pathbreaking Groupe de Recherche d’Art […]

Polly WatsonJun 8, 2026

Hyperallergic

Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969

Featuring live presentations, this exhibition grounds performance as the foundation of contemporary Native Art. On view at SITE Santa Fe June 5–September 7, 2026.

SITE Santa FeJun 8, 2026

Hyperallergic

My Queasy, Forest-Scented Stroll Through LA’s New AI Art Museum

Refik Anadol’s Dataland is a whirling, glaring, hyper-stimulating audio-visual-olfactory voyage that has more in common with Disneyland.

Matt StrombergJun 9, 2026

The Conversation

Bangarra’s Sheltering is a powerful showcase of First Nations dance and creativity

Through Sheltering, Bangarra Dance Theatre proves one of its greatest strengths is in nurturing talented new voices.

Erin Brannigan, Associate Professor, Theatre and Performance, UNSW SydneyJun 9, 2026

Common Edge

In Architecture, What’s Old Is New Again

The profession’s “modern” paradigm forbids the revival of past patterns, but new science is revealing that traditional designs embody centuries of accumulated wisdom.

Martin PedersenJun 8, 2026

Artforum

Tone Hansen Appointed Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm

Sweden’s minister for culture, Parisa Liljestrand, at a June 8 press conference announced Tone Hansen as the next director of Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Hansen arrives to the institution from Munch, the museum in Oslo devoted to the work of Edvard Munch, where she has served as director since 2022. She previously helmed the Henie Onstad […]