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SummaryDavid Brian Smith’s All around the Wrekin exhibition explores English pastoral traditions through luminous, surrealistic landscapesWorks such as "Another Dream" and "A Dragons Eye" combine oil and gold leaf on herringbone linenOn view at Ross + Kramer until November 22, 2025London-based contemporary artist David Brian Smith’s latest exhibition at Ross + Kramer Gallery is titled All around the Wrekin. The show presents a series of luminous new landscapes that merge memory, folklore and ancestral heritage into richly symbolic compositions. The title itself references a Midlands expression meaning “to take the long way around,” a fitting metaphor for Smith’s winding journey through personal history and imaginative reinterpretation of rural life.The show features several notable large‑s...

SummaryAmerican artist Mark Ryden, known for his leading the pop surrealist aesthetic, has lifted the veil on Eye Am at Perrotin Los AngelesOn view through December 20, the exhibition features a mix of paintings and drawings that revel in intuition, curiosity and feelingWhimsy, wondrous and delightfully absurd, Mark Ryden’s fantastical worlds offer up an escape from our own, from the confines of logic, from chronology and the pressures of corporate enclosure. The pop surrealist pioneer has built a career out of elusive, Victorian-inflected dreamscapes, and his new exhibition at Perrotin Los Angeles only takes us further down this rabbit hold.There’s thinking and there’s feeling, and as Eye Am points out, one often comes at the expense of the other. As a result, this new suite of paintings ...

SummaryFondation Beyeler hosts Switzerland’s first major Yayoi Kusama retrospective, showcasing over 300 worksHighlights include Infinity "Mirrored Room – Illusion Inside the Heart," "Narcissus Garden" and immersive polka‑dot tentacle installationsThe show will run until January 25, 2026The Fondation Beyeler in Basel is hosting Switzerland’s first major retrospective of Yayoi Kusama. The show presents a vast vision of the artist's prolific output, featuring approximately 300 works that span her entire career, presenting both iconic installations and previously unseen pieces that highlight her lifelong exploration of infinity, repetition and the interplay between art and life.Among the standout works is "Infinity Mirrored Room – Illusion Inside the Heart" (2025), a mirrored cube installed i...

Meet Mariko Mori, the time traveler. From ancient cosmologies to technological futures, the Japanese artist has long used her practice as a way to bridge the gap between matter and spirit, this world and the next, revealing the unseen dimensions that bind the universe. She sees connections where others see borders, and commits herself to bringing these immaterial links into a rich, resonant reality — a pursuit she considers her “mission.”This metaphysical journey extends into her ongoing exhibition, Radiance, at New York’s Sean Kelly, running through December 20. Connecting her enduring fascination with quantum imagination and primordial faith, the showcase explores the transcendental energy of iwakura – sacred rock sites found across Japan – and like these stones, the works on view are de...