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Loewe Foundation Announces 2025 Craft Prize Shortlist
The LOEWE FOUNDATION has released the shortlist for the 2025 Craft Prize. Chosen from a pool of over 4,500 applications, the final lineup of 30 artists from 18 countries will present their works in a special group exhibition at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid from May 30 through June 29, 2025.The 2025 prize winner will be announced on May 29, during the show’s opening ceremony, and will receive a €50,000 award. The artist will be selected by a jury of 13 leading names in design, architecture, journalism, criticism and museum curatorship.“Year on year it gives me such pleasure to see the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize provide a platform for extraordinary talent, and change the perception of craft internationally,” said the Foundation's president Sheila Loewe. “Over the past decad...
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Cosmo Whyte Brings a Pixelated Past Into Full Focus
The Arts Club of Chicago presents The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone, a solo exhibition by Jamaica-born, Los Angeles-based artist Cosmo Whyte, now on view through April 2. In a showcase of works across several mediums, Whyte finds clarity in the haze of memory, exploring the inescapable connection between the personal and collective through the idea of spectacle.Using his later father’s architectural archives as a point of departure, Whyte interrogates the act of seeing: “What makes a witness? And what does it mean to have become one?” Uncovering new layers of meaning along the way, the artist employs a postmodernist approach to imagery, reworking photographs to reveal to alternative contexts.Standouts include "4x4 Timing/Hush Now, Don’t Explain" (2023), a multi-fold steel ...
Metrograph to Host “Memoriam Marathon” of David Lynch Films
The Metrograph in New York is set to present In Dreams, an all-day, tribute to the legendary late David Lynch, on February 19. Following his passing last month, the theater takes a look back and honors Lynch's artistic legacy, promising “a full day of terror, bliss, crackpot comedy, ominous whooshing… and collective celebration of a titan of American art.”The “memoriam marathon” will see several of the director’s most pivotal films – Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart – alongside an introduction by cinematographer and Lynch’s longtime collaborator Frederick Elmes."It’s been such a privilege to be part of David's unique vision, one that transports us to worlds that are familiar and mysterious, frightening and dark, beautiful and inspirational,” expressed Elmes, w...
Huma Bhabha Mounts Towering Sculptures at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Huma Bhabha’s "Before The End" brings four towering bronze sculptures to Brooklyn Bridge Park, their haunting forms set against the Manhattan skyline. Presented by the Public Art Fund, the exhibition, running through March 2025, draws on Bhabha’s fascination with apocalyptic imagery, sci-fi and horror. The title comes from medieval writer Vincent of Beauvais, whose dark visions resonate with the artist’s own concerns about the state of the world.The figures—cast from carved cork and skeletal fragments—serve as both warnings and witnesses. “I titled it Before The End. I didn’t even know what was coming,” said Bhabha to Artnet, who created the works in 2023.Bhabha’s packed schedule continues with "Encounters: Giacometti" at London’s Barbican Centre in May 2025, where her sculptures will be d...
Andres Serrano and Barry X Ball Rework Religious Iconography in ‘Pious & Profane’
Back in June 2023, Pope Francis welcomed some 200 artists, writers and creatives to celebrate the Vatican’s contemporary art collection. Among the artists representing the United States were Barry X Ball and Andres Serrano whose 1987 work Immersion (Piss Christ) – a photograph of a plastic crucifix steeped in urine – scandalized the art world and U.S. senators alike. Despite the many works ripe for backlash from Christian protestors, the Pope applauded the arts for its ability to bring hope to the world, without shying away from the depths and darkness of humanity.At Patricia Low Contemporary in Gstaad, Switzerland, Serrano and Ball reflect on their Vatican visit in a new duet show. Titled Pious & Profane, the exhibition draws a connection between these two seemingly disparate concepts...
TAG Heuer Becomes First Title Partner of F1 Grand Prix de Monaco
Following TAG Heuer’s appointment as the official timekeeper for Formula 1, the LVMH-owned brand now also becomes the first title partner in the nearly 100-year history of the Grand Prix de Monaco — marking a historic moment for both the race and the renowned Swiss watchmaker.Celebrating its 75th year in Formula 1, TAG Heuer's return as the official timekeeper reinforces its strong connection with the top tier of motor racing and the prestigious Monaco race. The shared story of Monaco and TAG Heuer spans decades, interwoven through motorsport and the famous TAG Heuer Monaco collection, making it fitting for the race to now be known as the Formula 1 TAG Heuer Grand Prix de Monaco.Since the ‘60s and ‘70s, drivers like Jochen Rindt, Jo Siffert, Niki Lauda and Ronnie Peterson wore Heuer chron...
Maureen Paley Displays Photocopier Works by Pati Hill & Wolfgang Tillmans
Maureen Paley presents a photographic showcase featuring Pati Hill and Wolfgang Tillmans as part of Air de Paris at Studio M for Condo 2025. The exhibition highlights both artists’ use of photocopiers as a creative tool, manipulating images to produce abstract compositions and portraits of inanimate objects—where the machine itself becomes both the subject and the means of production.“The principles on which the copier works—yes/no, multiplicity, instantaneousness—are those that govern much of modern life. Letting the copier impose rather than imposing on it may reveal something about our times and what lies ahead,” wrote Pati Hill in Letters to Jill, A Catalogue and Some Notes on Copying (1979), reprinted by Mousse in 2020.The exhibition features Hill’s distinctive xerographs from 1977 to...
Christie’s First AI Art Auction Sparks Backlash
Thousands of artists are calling on Christie’s to cancel its upcoming “Augmented Intelligence” auction, the first major sale dedicated to art made with artificial intelligence, slated to run from February 20 to March 5.The auction explores the role of human agency in the age of AI, tracing the evolution of art and technology over several decades. The sale of 20 lots expects to bring in $600,000, with works by Harold Cohen, an early AI art pioneer, alongside a lineup of contemporary artists experimenting with emerging technologies, such as Refik Anadol, Pindar Van Arman, Sasha Stiles, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.The open letter, addressed to Christie’s digital art specialists, now contains 4,000 signatures, including artists Karla Ortiz and Kelly McKernan who filed a class-action lawsuit...
Hypeart to Unveil ‘THRESHOLD’ Exhibition at Bonhams LA
Hypeart’s Threshold at Bonhams LA will explore the tension between history and change, featuring works by Shepard Fairey, Beverly Pepper, Sam Gilliam and more. The exhibition, on view from February 18-21, will examine shifting boundaries in art and society. A special event reception and panel discussion on February 20 will bring together Shepard Fairey, renowned artist and activist; Richard Scarry, art curator and dealer; Larry Warsh, art collector and founder of No More Rulers; Keith Estiler, Managing Editor at Hypeart/HYPEBEAST; Ralph Taylor, Global Head of 20th/21st Century Art at Bonhams; and Isabel Norsten, Specialist in Post-War & Contemporary Art at Bonhams. The discussion will explore the exhibition’s themes and mark the launch of Fairey-isms, a new book by No More Rulers and p...
Luxuriöses Lifestyle-Hotel: DFB-Frauen residieren in Zürich
Die deutschen Fußballerinnen werden im Sommer bei der EM-Endrunde in der Schweiz (2. bis 27. Juli) in Zürich residieren. Die Mannschaft von Bundestrainer Christian Wück und der dazugehörige Tross stei ...
Helmut Lang Announces New Sculptural Exhibition in Los Angeles
After retiring from his namesake label in 2005, creative polymath Helmut Lang turned his attention to art, culling his extensive garment archive into raw material for his large-scale sculptures. Though his personal collection of the brand is no longer, having been transformed into artworks and donated to art and fashion collections around the world, Lang's fascination with materials' second life stayed central to his practice.Now, Lang's chimeric sculptures are coming to Los Angeles in What remains behind, his latest solo exhibition housed at the Schindler House of the MAK Center. Curated by Neville Wakefield, the show explores, in the artist's own words, an affinity for materials “with a past, elements with irreplaceable presence and with scars and memories of a former purpose.”Lang fills...
