Art

The celebrated Brazilian fashion photographer Rafael Pavarotti was born in 1993 in Icoaraci, Pará, in the Amazon region. Today, he is internationally renowned for his mastery of hyper-saturated colors and his theatrical staging.

From October 2, 2026, to May 2, 2027, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs will present the work of 33 years old Brazilian photographer Rafael Pavarotti—his first solo exhibition and retrospective in France.

Rafael Pavarotti takes pride in his…

Peter Gabriel’s latest studio album is titled *oi*. It is his eleventh studio album and serves as the direct, inverted counterpart to his 2023 album, *i/o*.

Nadav Kander created the portrait of Peter Gabriel used for the album cover.

Throughout 2026, the album was released incrementally—coinciding with the phases of the full moon—in the form of individual songs and alternative mixes. The complete physical album release is scheduled for November 27, 2026. As with *i/o*, each…

Lennart Brede explores the intersection of photography, film and digital transformation with his project “Allez Gut, Johanna”.

His AI-generated film is based on a real dancer and photographs taken by Brede himself. Artificial intelligence becomes a tool for visual transformation, turning photographic moments into a new world of moving images. A project that raises the question of where photography ends and a new form of filmmaking begins.

Until 22 October 2026, Anna Laudel…

People embrace at a festival, a woman unloads her Mercedes next to a demolished house, families push prams through an artificial leisure world. Something is happening everywhere – and more often than not, several things are happening at once.

For more than four decades, Wolfgang Zurborn has been looking at places where people come together. Not necessarily at the main event itself, but preferably at what happens beside it, behind it and right in the middle of it. His new…

30 years of Acne Studios – a perfect occasion to revisit Autoportrait, the 21st issue of Acne Paper. The S/S 2026 issue explores the creative world that has grown around Acne Studios since its founding in Stockholm in 1996 – spanning fashion, photography, art, architecture, design and publishing.

Autoportrait tells this story not as a traditional retrospective, but through the artists, creatives and friends who have shaped the Acne universe over three decades. The cover…

Extrovert – for his independent film project, Tian Stöhr created a portrait of the artist Niki, exploring her thoughts on introversion, visibility, and the pressure to project oneself outwardly as an artist.

“I’m not enough as an introvert.” – Caught between the desire to simply be herself and the feeling that she must change to achieve success, an intimate portrait emerged—one that examines self-image and external expectations.

Director and Director of Photography (DoP) Tian…

Paper is an everyday material, almost taken for granted – and at the same time one of the oldest carriers of our memories, thoughts and stories. In Papyrus, Jessica Backhaus makes this very material the starting point for a photographic body of work that is as reduced as it is sensual. Following Cut Outs (2021) and Plein Soleil (2024), the new book completes her trilogy on abstraction – and marks her tenth publication with Kehrer Verlag.

At a time when images increasingly…

The particular fascination of photomontage lies in the spaces between images: where pictures meet, leave their original contexts behind and give rise to unexpected new realities. This is precisely what happens in Frozen Features, the new project by American photographer, publisher and artist Jason Fulford, published by Loose Joints.

Fulford fuses time and space, places and memories into a visual waking dream. A tiny coiled leaf meets a vast landscape, a hand floats across a…

They sit side by side – yet sometimes seem worlds apart. In 'Archipelago', Yolanda Del Amo transforms human relationships into composed photographic stages. Gazes fail to meet, bodies share the same space yet remain at a distance. Intimacy and alienation, belonging and autonomy exist simultaneously.

The title says it all: the photographer sees relationships as an archipelago of emotional islands – separate, fragile, yet connected by invisible structures. Working in the…

World-renowned Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama died in Tokyo on August 14, 2026, at the age of 97, just weeks after the close of her record-breaking exhibition at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.

The major retrospective in Cologne, which ran from March 14 to August 2, 2026, generated unprecedented hype and attracted more than 450,000 visitors, making it the most successful exhibition in the Museum Ludwig's history. Over 300 works spanning seven decades were on display.

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Bridges between Tradition and Modern Technology – On August 12, 2026, the catalogue of works aka catalogue raisonné of media artist Dagmar Varady was presented in the Cabinet Room of the State Chancellery and the Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg, in the presence of the artist and publisher Lois Lammerhuber. For the first time, it comprehensively documents her artistic output from 31 years of creative work, spanning 1993 to 2024, encompassing a total of 433…

Some people look at photography. Roy Kahmann looks for photographers.

For more than two decades, the Amsterdam-based publisher, curator, collector, and gallerist Roy Kahmannhas made discovering and nurturing photographic talent the beating heart of his work. What began with Kahmann Gallery and GUP Magazine has evolved into the comprehensive Hungry Eye ecosystem, uniting publishing, exhibitions, artist representation, and an empowering platform for the next generation of…

A wedding that breaks with tradition: London gallery owner and Soho heiress India Rose James and jazz musician Daniel Vildósola tied the knot in Las Vegas. Daniel Vildósola is a Mexican-American guitarist, composer, and music producer. He lives and works in London.

India Rose James is a British art collector, gallery owner, and one of the most prominent figures in London's creative scene. As the granddaughter of legendary property and entertainment tycoon Paul Raymond (known…

AI has long become part of the creative everyday in photography, post-production, fashion and advertising. But what is it doing to our visual culture – and to the way we create, read and trust images? This is where SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt’s major summer exhibition The World Through AI comes in.

Around 40 works by some 30 international artists explore the cognitive, psychological, political and ecological dimensions of artificial intelligence. Videos, photographs…

The Almeida Theatre is a world-renowned, intimate Off-West End theatre in London's Islington district. With a capacity of just 325 seats, it is famous for staging high-caliber, daring productions with well-known leading actors in close proximity to the audience.

Currently, you can soon see BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning actor Josh O'Connor in the lead role of Joe Bonaparte in the Almeida Theatre's theatrical production of Clifford Odets' classic American drama, Golden Boy…

As the winner of the 2025 Prix Elysée, awarded by an international jury of experts, Hannah Darabi (1981), an Iranian artist based in Paris, explores Iranian folk dance as an act of identity resistance through photographs, videos, and archives interwoven with the social and political history of her homeland.

She creates series in which her images enter into dialogue with archives, texts, and objects, revealing the political complexities of contemporary Iran.

Inspired by Woman…