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Skarstedt has announced it will open a second gallery in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. Founded in 1994 by Swedish art dealer Per Skarstedt, the space has become a beacon for contemporary art within the city's Upper East Side, as well as opening global outposts in London and Paris since. The forthcoming gallery will allow Skarstedt to expand its programming, which in the past has included titans of 20th and 21st century art, from Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons to George Condo and KAWS. The latter figure will be the inaugural artist to open the Chelsea location at 547 West 25th Street, a 6,000 square feet outpost designed by architect Richard Gluckman. "Celebrating the old and the new, Skarstedt looks forward to deepening its commitment to the iconic artists that formed its very identity, whi...

There is an alchemical quality to an artists studio. Some are just like the images you'd see in a magazine editorial, filled with busy assistants, designer furniture and housed in a building created by an award-winning architect. Most, however, are just like the office or warehouse spaces you'd find in any city — assembled together with flat file cabinets, makeshift sofas on discarded palettes and IKEA standing desks. Regardless of the style and setting, the artist studio is the incubator in which the most otherworldly concepts, paintings and sculptures first take form. For those looking to get a peek into the daily routines of some of the most prolific artists, 11 such figures are opening their studio doors to the public for a fee of $1,000 USD, which will fully benefit the IFPDA Foundati...

At Assembly Bristol in the UK, the city’s newest waterfront spot, artist Alex Chinneck has introduced a series of sculptural street lamps that blend traditional charm with unexpected twists. Cast in steel, Chinneck’s creations reimagine Victorian-style lampposts with playful forms: two lamps twist into a dramatic bow, while another pair wraps closely together, an embrace the artist calls "First Kiss at Last Light." A single, upright lamp post completes the scene, contrasting the surreal with a touch of the familiar.Towering over four meters and set against the historic Floating Harbour, the installations combine classic designs with modern LED lighting, forming a bridge between old and new. Known for bringing a touch of fantasy to urban landscapes, Chinneck continue to turn everyday object...

Housed inside the Gothic chapel of MACBA’s Capella, Wu Tsang reimagines the story of Carmen with radiant motion. While she takes clear thematic cues from Georges Bizet’s original version, "La gran mentira de la muerte (The big lie of death)" both explores and interrogates the piece’s deep-seated themes, bringing together the ritual performance of death with cinema’s own haunting traditions.The opera, composed in 1875, famously centers on the tragic fate of its heroine, though unlike Bizet’s telling, the Tsang’s video and multichannel sound installation grounds itself in an elusive escape. The film hints at feelings of possibility in the face of death, capturing flecks of life through choreography inspired by flamenco and bullfighting traditions. With a visceral sense of hope, the artist se...