The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has opened its major Yayoi Kusama retrospective, on view through 17 January 2027. Following her death in August 2026, the exhibition, developed with the artist and her studio, becomes both a survey of seven decades of practice and an unanticipated tribute. Over 300 works trace her visual world from a childhood drawing to the immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms.

British-Nigerian artist and designer Chidi Nwaubani founded looty.art with a provocative question: can you steal back what has already been stolen? He speaks to .ART about digital restitution, the pitfalls of performative decolonization, and his plan for a borderless Meta-Museum that reconnects displaced heritage with the communities it came from.

Every September, the Swedish island of Smögen becomes an open-air light art festival. Its founder Dulce Sales Ahlberg on how she turned granite paths into an enormous, majestic art hall, why she draws a hard line between lighting and light art, and how a centerpiece by Miguel Chevalier weaves plankton into pink stone.

Textile artist Liza Smirnova on her decade-long practice across embroidery, painting, and installation, generational memory in inherited threads, and her ongoing project Hundreds of Flowers, a meditation on growth and roots in new soil after relocating from Russia to Portugal.

The founders of Dubai-based Dom Art Projects reflect on building a new kind of institution: structure and proposition, magic factory and spaceship. A conversation with Anna Pumpyanskaya and Alisa Bagdonaite, conducted by .ART.

The .ART team attended the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting 2026 in Philadelphia. Five companies on the MuseumExpo floor stood out, from AI-powered collection discovery and holographic interfaces to digitization, XR, and slow-looking tools.

Heather Timm paints, codes, sculpts, glitches, and builds in AR, sometimes inside a single work. In conversation about quantum logic, error as method, and why nothing in her practice is ever truly finished.

A bike. A projector. A city at night. BEAMBIKE Amsterdam turns cycling into a moving public artwork—activating canals, façades, and streets through light, motion, and sustainability. BEAMBIKE (beambike.art) is a nomadic public art project by German visual artist and filmmaker Jonas Denzel, transforming the act of cycling into a performative, light-based intervention in urban space. Using a […]

Discover how Daithi Magner’s Virtual Museum of Art is redefining what a museum can be – creating immersive, accessible, and inclusive spaces where anyone can experience art beyond physical walls. Title image: VMA’s Futurophia exhibition featuring artist Sophie Delaney — an immersive exploration of identity, technology, and digital aesthetics within the Virtual Museum of Art. […]