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However legitimate her background in architecture and jewelry design may be, Bianca Censori is first and foremost known for her distinctive, revealing fashion choices and for being Ye’s—né Kanye West’s—wife and muse. On Dec. 12 and 13, Censori debuted BIO POP (The Origin) , the first in what will be a series of seven performance art pieces spread out over the next several years. BIO POP took place at Layer 41, an event space in Seoul, South Korea, and was attended by over 500 people. Censori’s website has a video recording of the austere, unnerving performance. The 14-minute event began with Censori, clad in a maroon bodysuit, preparing something at a sleek kitchen island, the kind you’d find in a high-end apartment. At the 9½-minute mark, she gets on her knees in front of the oven, removes a red-domed object, places it on a rolling bar cart, and robotically walks towards an inconspicuous white curtain at stage right. The last few minutes of the video reveal a truly creepy set of ...

Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, which closed following the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, has reopened as a “cultural platform that carries the narrative of Palestine.” The British street artist opened the guesthouse across from the West Bank barrier in 2017; nearly every window looks out onto the 30-foot-high concrete wall capped with barbed wire, advertised on its website as “the worst view in the world.” The nine-room hotel functions as a museum, art gallery, bookstore, and spray-paint shop, and was conceived as both a tourist draw for residents and a pointed lesson for international audiences about life in the embattled enclave.  Wisam Salsaa, the manager of the guesthouse, told  The Art Newspaper : “Closing our doors during the devastating assault on Gaza was not an easy decision—and now we reopen with hope.” He added that the hotel symbolizes more than a hotel for Palestinians, and especially those in Bethlehem, but a needed b...

I didn’t set a red line, the world set a red line – Barack Obama Recently, there have been many events and articles focused on Canada’s identity issues. I specifically found Michel Maisonneuve (LGen Retd) appearance in the Macdonald-Laurier Institute series on ’Voices That Inspire’ very interesting. One theme that resonated with me was the retired General’s mention of Canada’s tolerance. I was reminded of that well-known quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: ‘our strengths are a hair’s breadth away from becoming our weaknesses’. Another thread came from an article by David Moscrop in The Walrus, where he spoke about the ongoing challenges in dealing with the US Administration and concluded that “Canada must nonetheless have its red lines, and push back firmly against American aggression…” I concluded that many Canadians feel Canada needs a makeover, and that in doing so we need to walk back tolerance a bit and introduce red lines. My personal feeling is that we must recreate and protec...

When the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) touched down in Estonia this October for TARASSIS , a major Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF)-led rehearsal, it wasn’t just another multinational exercise. It was a proving ground—one that put Canada’s air power, adaptability, and strategic innovation under intense scrutiny across multiple European theatres. Operating from Ämari Air Base and deploying across Finland, Lithuania, and Latvia, the RCAF demonstrated just how far it has come in modernizing its approach to operations in NATO’s evolving security environment. TARASSIS marked a decisive moment for Canada: a visible, tangible reaffirmation of its commitment to Allied readiness and deterrence, and a milestone in the RCAF’s adoption of Agile Combat Employment (ACE) and Agile Operations Employment (AOE) —two concepts that are fundamentally reshaping how air forces think, fight, and survive in contested airspace. A New Era of Air Power: ACE and AOE in Practice At its core, ACE is about disp...

TONO,  the time-based art festival , has announced the lineup for its 2026 edition, returning March 6–22 with a slate of new and existing video installations, performance commissions, music events, and screenings across Mexico City and Puebla. Programming will span major institutions including Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Casa del Lago UNAM, Museo Jumex, and Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, with additional exhibitions at Museo Amparo in Puebla.  This year’s live program includes work by Tino Sehgal, Space Afrika, Franziska Aigner, and Kelman Duran. TONO will also organize a dedicated exhibition by Ho Tzu Nyen and debut a special project by Mexican artist Avantgardo. In conjunction with his retrospective at Museo de Arte Moderno, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will collaborate with the festival on a new live program, while Melanie Smith will participate in an event timed to her exhibition at Museo Jumex.  Further international partnerships continue to expand TONO’s reach. The f...

Christie’s announced Thursday that it will stage a single-owner sale of works owned by billionaire Bill Koch over two sessions on January 20 and January 21. The “Visions of the West” sale will feature dozerns of works owned by Koch, with a heavy emphasis on American artists who depicted the American West and the frontier. Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell, and Albert Bierstadt are among the artists whose works are to be sold from the collection. Koch, 85, is the lesser known of the four Koch brothers, with his siblings Charles and David—Bill’s twin brother—better known as some of the biggest donors to conservative causes over the last several decades. Bill had falling out in the 1980s with those brothers over the family business Koch Industries, and spent time working in an energy development company in Florida. Bill also is an avid art collector, a passion that will be on full display at Christie’s. The sale there will include 16 sculptures by Remington, his painting Comi...

Ceal Floyer, an artist whose spare sculptures charmed and confused in equal measure, died on Thursday at 57. Esther Schipper, the Berlin-based gallery that represented her alongside Lisson and 303, said that she died after a long battle with illness. Floyer received international attention for sleek artworks that consider how meaning is constructed. Working within a long tradition of conceptual art that extends back to the 1960s, Floyer often made sculptures using familiar objects such as ladders, umbrellas, drains, and receipts, pondering what happens to the everyday when it is raised to the status of art. Her work was frequently sly and dryly funny. Her most famous piece, Light Switch (1992–99), featured a projector beaming an image of a 35mm slide depicting a light switch at a wall. The projection was not a light switch but an image of one, though it was ironically made possible through electric illumination. Bucket (1999), another beloved work, takes the form of a plastic buc...