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George Condo’s latest exhibitions, Pastels, take over Sprüth Magers and Hauser & Wirth in New York, spotlighting his inventive approach to the pastel medium. Known for pushing boundaries, Condo’s new works abandon preparatory sketches, relying instead on instinctive gestures, gesso layers and bold color fields to delve into the complexities of the human psyche.At Hauser & Wirth, a series of fractured, geometric portraits—what Condo calls his "bizarre characters"—lay bare the inner conflicts of the mind. Bright planes of color intersect jaggedly across their faces, reflecting the splintered and multifaceted nature of thought.Meanwhile, Sprüth Magers features frenetic color compositions alongside stark black-and-white pastels, where dripping pigments and intersecting forms prioritize...

In 2017, peripatetic photographer Austin Bell visited Hong Kong for the first time and was immediately captivated by the vibrant, outdoor basketball courts scattered throughout the city – an eye-catching contrast to the muted asphalt of U.S. courts. That fascination grew into a mission when Bell returned in 2019, this time, with an ambitious goal: to photograph all 2,549 of the city’s courts.This project, entitled Shooting Hoops, is now the central focus of a new photo book and exhibition at Blue Lotus Gallery that chronicles his exhaustive exploration. Juxtaposed against the backdrop of Hong Kong’s towering urban landscape, Bell’s work captures the charm of each space, revealing the unique topography of a city where space is at a premium.The project expands on Bell’s interest in “sports s...

Night Gallery is set to unveil Morning Star, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based Cathleen Clarke. In this new suite of oil and acrylic paintings, Clarke draws from memories and family photographs of her upbringing in rural Illinois, giving way to a sublime meditation on domesticity and the environment.The works of Morning Star trace the many faces of farm life, moving between sunny fields to moonlit gatherings of coyotes. Shadow and light refuse clear boundaries, along with Clarke’s forms: a teal horse and its rider smear into one another, bodies melt into the furniture they reside in and double-visioned faces.Every time a memory loosens, so too does the composition. This process of wiping the canvas surface “evokes the presence and absence integral to any act of remembrance,” the gallery ...

Phaidon is tapping into the marvelous world of MSCHF for its next hardcover offering. What the publisher is referring to as an "irreverent guide to the inner workings" of the Lukas Bentel and Kevin Wiesner-founded art collective, Made by MSCHF compiles twelve case studies and never-before-seen behind-the-scenes imagery in the first-ever extensive – 384 pages, to be exact – look into the Brooklyn-based entity."MSCHF, as a practice and as an entity, manifests the ambition for a creative entity to wield tangible cultural power as measured against that of world-straddling companies, celebrities, and media entities," the brand wrote in an Instagram caption revealing the book's release. "MSCHF has always been best defined by what it makes; it was created to be a series of projects. Made by MSCHF...

Ricco/Maresca Gallery invites audiences to step into Adrift in the Corners of Time, a solo exhibition by Ian Ferguson aka Hydeon. In a showcase of over 20 paintings, the new series conjures scenes from an imagined video game for the future PlayStation 6, welcoming viewers into the artist’s world of  ancient landscapes and steel-clad odysseys.Hydeon's work begins with a wide gamut of stylistic inspiration, brought together through a curious, anachronistic aperture. Ranging from medieval, baroque and Victorian to art brut, science fiction and video game art, the collection is anchored by an unexpected harmony of these disparate temporalities.While fantastical in their appearance, the works reimagine moments in the artist’s life, where the characters, architecture and imagery serve as conduit...

The renowned Canadian artist Miles Greenberg has unveiled a new, marble-clad exhibition at Salon 94, now on view through February 15, 2025. Best known for his endurance-based live performances, the show marks the first U.S. exhibition dedicated solely to Greenberg's sculptural practice.Entitled Desire Path, the exhibition transforms the gallery space into a dance of Carrara marble sculptures. The pieces were created by digitally mapping bodies in motion during Greenberg’s 2023 performance Fountain II, first presented at New York’s Pace Gallery. Using a hacked 3D scanner that limits its ability to self-correct, the artist captures fleeting moments of motion. The resulting scans are machine-carved into pink, black and white marble, then hand-finished by the artist.The works explore the inter...