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Last week, 21-year-old Jack Gibson-Burrel, the accused creator of the infamous “Pam the Bird,” was arrested and charged with 50 offenses including criminal burglary, motor theft and around $100,000 worth of graffiti-related damage.Gibson-Burrel faced Melbourne Magistrate's Court following a string of cartoon-like murals that sprung up across Melbourne's cityscape over the last six months. Alongside him, 39-year-old Matthew Raoul White has also been charged for criminal damage linked to the “SROCK” tag often seen with the bird.Over the last several years, Pam the Bird gained a cult following on social media, rising to the status of a mascot in the city's western suburbs, with appearances sprawled across metro rails, road signs and towering landmarks, like the Channel Nine building, Flinders...

Jupiter Miami is set to unveil Serenity Now, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Adam Himebauch, running from February 16 through March 20. For Serenity Now, Himebauch strips things down, presenting a series of monochromatic landscapes inspired by pre-urban Miami and a recent trip to Jamaica. It’s a stark departure from his usual theatrics, offering a quiet, meditative shift in his practice.Monochromatic landscapes aren’t entirely new territory for Himebauch. In 2020, the self-taught artist explored hyper-saturated, intricately rendered forest scenes as a way to challenge his own technical abilities. Those works later became integral to Back to the Future, a conceptual project that blended media and nostalgia, using a predominantly black-and-white Instagram feed punctuated by bursts...

Pioneer Works is currently showcasing a solo exhibition by American Artist inspired by the life and legacy of science fiction luminary Octavia E. Butler. With titular cues from her seminal, post-apocalyptic novel Parable of the Sower, Shaper of God circles similar ideas of climate change, unchecked power and corporate greed through a striking display of sculpture, installation, drawing and video.The exhibition interlaces Butler’s resonant, speculative worlds with intimate details of her life, tracing her radical, political imagination through lived experiences. In “Estella Butler’s Apple Valley Autonomy" (2024,) for example, Artist reimagines her grandmother’s chicken coop and explores how its burning gave rise to the prevalence of fire in her most famed stories. Complementing the sculptur...

Pioneer Works is currently showcasing a solo exhibition by American Artist inspired by the life and legacy of science fiction luminary Octavia E. Butler. With titular cues from her seminal, post-apocalyptic novel Parable of the Sower, Shaper of God circles similar ideas of climate change, unchecked power and corporate greed through a striking display of sculpture, installation, drawing and video.The exhibition interlaces Butler’s resonant, speculative worlds with intimate details of her life, tracing her radical, political imagination through lived experiences. In “Estella Butler’s Apple Valley Autonomy" (2024,) for example, Artist reimagines her grandmother’s chicken coop and explores how its burning gave rise to the prevalence of fire in her most famed stories. Complementing the sculptur...

The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has released the lineup for the highly anticipated Made in L.A. biennial running from October to early January 2026. Composed of 27 artists, the exhibition will shift its focus to those working in the greater LA area.For the seventh edition of the biennial, curators Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha pooled a group of multigenerational artists who work across a variety of mediums. Featured works include a presentation by esteemed conceptual artist John Knight, architectural explorations by Hood Century Modern founder Jerald Cooper, a choreographic composition by Will Rawls and a stage production by Leila Weinraub and avant-garde duo New Theater Hollywood (Max Pitegoff and Calla Henkel.)While this year’s theme has yet to be announced, the curators note that ...

The U.S. Copyright Office has just ruled that AI art created with text prompts, or "purely AI-generated material," cannot be copyrighted. The decision, detailed in a report published on January 29, offers some clarity in the murky legal territory surrounding AI within creative industries, emphasizing the dangers of “using AI as a stand-in for human creativity.”The report stems from an ongoing investigation into AI-generated works which began in 2023, and considered over 10,000 contributions from the public – including artists, performers, directors and musicians. The report notes that “prompts alone do not provide sufficient human control to make users of an A.I. system the authors of the output,” though works created using AI “assistance” are protected under copyright law, and even those ...

Japanese contemporary artist Yoshitomo Nara has teamed up to create a line of merchandise and the official poster for FireAid, a benefit concert which was held on January 30 at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome and Kia Forum. Proceeds went to support communities recovering from the recent wildfires in LA as per ARTnews.Orchestrated by music industry titans alongside Live Nation and the LA Clippers, the concert boasts an all-star roster, including Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Nicks, Katy Perry and Joni Mitchell. Longtime fans of Nara’s work, the Azoffs brought him on board early with help from dealer Tim Blum, recognizing his history of involvement in humanitarian causes.Nara’s commitment to disaster relief—shaped by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami—...

At the nexus of art, poetry and performance, Precious Okoyomon explores the interplay between play, chaos and regeneration. They first gained widespread attention following their presentation at the 2022 Venice Biennale, where they transformed the Arsenale into a sprawling, lush ecosystem, braiding natural flows with Afro-futuristic visions. Now, Okoyomon is bringing their imaginative worlds to Austria with ONE EITHER LOVES ONESELF OR KNOWS ONESELF, a solo exhibition featuring new works, at Kunsthaus Bregenz.Through a series of expansive installations, the show transforms the museum into a dreamscape. From psychoanalytic consulting rooms reimagined with cute and mischievous devils, to a suspended sea of stuffed animals, the artist confronts intimate desires and fears with an unflinching si...