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Art Basel Reveals Exhibitor Lineup and New Sector for Its 2025 Edition
Art Basel has unveiled the roster for the 2025 edition of its marquee Swiss fair this summer. Under the direction of Maike Cruse, the flagships’ 55th edition will showcase 291 galleries, hailing from 42 countries and territories, launching its new Premiere sector, dedicated to "ultra-contemporary" artworks.Premiere will highlight 10 galleries displaying works, by up to three artists, created in the past five years. The section will see Chapter NY, presenting Antonia Kuo’s photochemical paintings and Erin Jane Nelson’s ceramics; alongside Beijing’s Magician Space where Liu Ding reflects on multi-valenced trauma in his latest installation Survivors. Making a Basel debut, London’s Edel Assanti will spotlight Lonnie Holley’s multi-medium practice.Other galleries from this year’s newcoming clas...
Mickalene Thomas Revvs Up DART Car’s Custom McLaren
The Driven Artists Racing Team (DART Car) tapped American artist Mickalene Thomas to design a custom wrap for their debut McLaren Artura GT4 race car, making the launch of the women-led motorsports team. The team will unveil the inaugural commission at New York’s Classic Car Club on February 18, before its track-bound debut this spring.Renderings reveal bold, reflective streaks of colors and patterns wrapped around the exterior, as the front of the vehicle bears an abstract portrait of a woman's face. In addition to the car itself, Thomas, fresh off her London All About Love opening, has also designed bespoke suits and hand-painted helmets for the drivers.“This collaboration with DART Car embodies the perfect union of art and feminism as a potent fusion of creativity, speed, and female emp...
Highlights from Hypeart’s ‘THRESHOLD’ Exhibition at Bonhams LA
Threshold is an exploration of boundaries—those we face, those we break and those that confine us. Curated by Hypeart, this upcoming exhibition at Bonhams LA is a moment of transition, a pause between the known and the unknown, forcing us to confront our environment and our place within it With works from Shepard Fairey, George Condo, Beverly Pepper, Sam Gilliam and others, Threshold invites viewers to engage with art that challenges conventions, blurs lines and forges new paths. The exhibition, on view from February 18-21, will examine shifting boundaries in art and society.In a charitable partnership, Hypeart and Bonhams has collaborated with Project Angel Food to present works by Elizabeth Neel and Margo Wolowiec as part of Threshold. The proceeds from the sale of these specific works, ...
Hassan Hajjaj’s Eclectic Portraits Capture Moments of Cultural Connection
Hannah Traore Gallery is lifting the veil on a new solo showcase by Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj. Through a collection of portraits taken over the course of two decades, Hajjaj presents a visual dialogue between North African heritage and Western iconography, breathing vibrant life into every aspect of his work – from the subjects' sartorial style down to the colorful, multi-patterned frames.People of My Time reflects the ethos of the artist’s practice. Hajjaj weaves traditional Moroccan traditions with British pop iconography, where the faces of Imaan Hammam, Che Lovelace, Honey Dijon, Sarah Perles and Afrikan Boy serve as his creative muses.Surrounding each portrait, frames created from repurposed floor mates, conjures the bustle of Medina, adorning the figures with a tactile real...
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...
