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Across the vast landscape of artmaking since the late 20th century, artists on the West Coast have explored many thresholds and states of being — decay and seduction, struggle and release, birth and aftermath. Embracing new materials and social realities, artists turned inward, while engaging with the energies unraveling around them. The lines between interior and exterior give way. Embodiment, emotion and environment fold into one another under the same sky. This is a careful dance best exemplified in Ernie Barnes’ Sketch for Boxing No. 2 (circa 1984). The intense and energetic composition suspends conflict at a midpoint when force gives way to a moment of mutual recognition. Rather than a rigorous struggle for power or display of brute force, the strength of each boxer emanates through ...

Summary ‘Mirror Works’ spotlights Anish Kapoor’s reflective stainless-steel sculptures that distort space and perception The New York show arrives amid a major run of international museum exhibitionsA focused presentation of mirror sculptures by Anish Kapoor has opened in New York's Lisson Gallery under the title 'Mirror Works', bringing together pieces created between 2010 and the present. The exhibition continues the artist’s decades-long exploration of scale, color, volume and material, foregrounding stainless-steel forms that shift and destabilize the viewer’s sense of space.Known for transforming perception into a physical experience, Kapoor approaches sculpture not as a static object but as a spatial event. His reflective surfaces bend architecture, swallow light and return distorted...

SummaryThe show brings together key works from the 1980s to the artist’s more recent large-scale paintingsThe exhibition shows how Koons transforms the familiar into something largerTo mark the 20th anniversary of the Espaces Louis Vuitton and the 10th anniversary of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Hors-les-murs program, Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka is presenting a focused exhibition of Jeff Koons. The show brings together key works from the 1980s to the artist’s more recent large-scale paintings, offering a concise look at how his practice has evolved over four decades.Titled Paintings and Banality, the exhibition highlights Koons’s long-standing interest in everyday objects and popular culture. Since the 1980s, he has blurred the line between high art and mass culture, using images drawn fro...