Archaeological objects returned to Egypt - Office for the Arts

For the last decade, our good friend and collaborator Jeroen Smeets of The Jaunt, has facilitated journeys for artists to some of the most far-flung places on Earth as part of week-long residencies in destinations of their choosing. Building on the limitless inspiration of travel and seeking to grow The Jaunt community, Smeets first hosted a Winter Camp in 2024 that invited four artists to spend time together in close quarters, hemmed in by winter weather and providing a welcome respite for the cross pollination of ideas, art, food, stories, and adventures. For the third iteration of Winter Camp, Joy Machine and The Jaunt teamed up to bring four artists from balmy California, to the frigid tundra of the Midwest, subjecting them to a proper winter for the first time in their lives with frozen lakes, sledding, snowballs, and temperatures reaching a sublime 4 degrees Fahrenheit. The destination? The historic and picturesque Camp Wandawega, located just a short trek north of Chicago in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

Fernando Botero’s The Dove of Peace before it was damaged. Protesters assembled around Bogota’s National Museum of Colombia over the weekend after the removal of more than 30 objects “related to the struggles of the LGBTQ+ movement, feminism, and the political left,” according to the digital news source Colombia One.

Institutions, especially well-resourced museums, foundations, and cultural organizations, have no excuse for relying on generative tools instead of paying writers. Reading art writing shouldn't feel like this. (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic; video Getty Images, photo public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

'I like the paradox of an object that has such a strong physical presence, yet whose image is almost entirely made up of whatever surrounds it,' says the french designer, who has spent more than a decade of his practice reworking the mirror through different forms and materials. sofia lekka angelopoulou October 20, 2026 9 min prefer designboom on googleThe mirror as an object to look and to be looked at ‘The mirror is, after all, a utopia, since it is a placeless place,’ said Michel Foucault in a 1967 lecture, explaining that in a mirror you see yourself where you are not, ‘in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface.’ He then called it a heterotopia as well, since the mirror does exist in reality, where it ‘exerts a sort of counteraction’ on the position you occupy. No other object in a house behaves this way, since everything else in a room is looked at while a mirror hands the room back with its viewer inside it. That duality, between what the object looks like and what it does to whoever stands in front of it, has given the mirror an unusual position in design.

Olivia Zubko combines our favored legends with humankind’s most sacred pillars: beauty and bathrooms. Olivia Zubko, “Wishing Well” (2026), glazed porcelain, plastic (all photos Natalie Jenkins/Hyperallergic)