The Clark Art Institute is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the United States. Located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, it has been devoted to the study and exhibition of art since 1955. The Institute uniquely combines a museum of the highest caliber with a leading research center—the Research and Academic Program—positioning it as an international point of reference for art historians, curators, and scholars...

Edgar Su won the top prize at the World Sports Photography Awards 2026 with this photograph of Carlos Alcaraz in full action. Amateur Photographer, in its January 27, 2026 issue, reports the award and reproduces the image.
The photograph is titled Carlos’ Shadow Hits a Ball and was taken during an actual match. One could easily swear it was shot in a studio, so precise is it that it unsettles.

It is generally understood that national museums ought to be the natural custodians of their cultural memory.
Spaces where the history of national art is presented in an ordered and intelligible form. Where foundational images can still be contemplated. Yet, primarily for reasons of funding, an increasing number of state institutions...

Richard Hoare presents Edge of Light | Journeys Across a Frontier at Messum’s (London). From 7 to 30 January 2026, Messum’s (David Messum Fine Art) brings together a selection of recent works by the British painter, conceived along the Atlantic edge. The gallery frames this territory as a threshold: a place where sea and horizon blur, and light seems to force its way through skies that are dense, unstable, and perpetually in flux.

My interest in Asia does not arise from fascination, but from the recognition of a cultural sediment that resists superficial readings. China and Japan have been fundamental references in this process, both in the realm of visual arts and in that of symbolic management. Their literature and philosophy have not lost their capacity to converse with contemporaneity—not as untouchable corpora, but as tools for living thought...

Three and a half years after her death, Paula Rego’s work continues to unfold an uneasy power, resistant to domestication. A recent exhibition at Cristea Roberts Gallery in London brings together a group of prints produced between 2005 and 2007, during the final phase of the artist’s career. Far from any pacifying reading, these works confirm that time does not soften the strangeness of her universe; on the contrary, it sharpens it, making it harder to evade.

Margate is a coastal town in southeastern England. Located in the county of Kent, on the shores of the North Sea, it forms part of the Thanet district and lies approximately 120 kilometres east of London.
Directly facing the sea stands Turner Contemporary, a contemporary art centre designed by David Chipperfield Architects and inaugurated in 2011...

An energetic, tall man with a spirited, deep, gravelly voice arrived at Yovani Bauta’s two-story Ironsides Miami studio in 2010. It was there that Yovani allowed me to use a small space to create my paintings. That intrepid man was Sergio Garcia.
Judging from their greeting, these two Cuban contemporary artists had been friends for quite some time...

Australian photographers Peter Eastway and David Evans, founders of the International Landscape Photographer of the Year award, have launched the inaugural edition of the Aerial Photographer of the Year. This international competition is devoted exclusively to images captured from the air—using drones, airplanes, helicopters, or hot air balloons—and seeks to encompass the widest possible range of aerial photographic practices...