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Los Angeles's Good Mother Gallery has worked with rising artist Sean Hamilton on a new limited edition print entitled Tire with Chains. Born in Idaho and now based in Seattle, Hamilton's practice revolves around the nuances of rural Midwestern life, drawing on his experience in advertising to cull disparate visual pairings to force an immediacy on topics that range various socio-political topics. Many of Hamilton's graphic compositions feature a subject on negative space, followed by a divide that signals a difference in worldviews — from racecar drivers fighting on the track to a white flag ushering in surrender. “Absurd as it is, I think there’s something to be learned by bringing these raw themes to contemporary art,” Hamilton previously said in an interview. “Over these few years thoug...

Who gets to write history? Adeshola Makinde often ponders on this question each time he enters his studio. Raised within Chicago's Northside, the Nigerian-American artist recalls gaps within his education pertaining Black history, so he sought to retrace the dots in his multi-media practice, splicing together fragments from politics, sports and entertainment, to form new dialogues on his personal journey towards Black consciousness. Makinde is showcasing a new solo exhibition that continues on this thread at Anthony Gallery. I SHOOK UP THE WORLD takes its title from a post-match interview, in which a triumphant Muhammad Ali utters his dominance after knocking out Sonny Liston. Makinde reframes Black excellence through a series of new collage compositions, piecing together snippets from Ebo...

KAWS and Andy Warhol are separated by generations, but a new exhibition draws parallels to the impact each artist had on the world of fine art and pop culture. On view at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the show surveys what the institution calls "dark themes" that run concurrent throughout each artist's respective practices, from skulls to car crashes, as well as a series of new paintings, sculptures and installations KAWS created in response to Warhol's embrace of commercialization.For those unable to attend, Phaidon will publish a book that chronicles the experience, featuring a foreword by Patrick Moore, an interview by Laurie Simmons and essays by Thomas Crow and Marianne Dobner. From poppy silkscreen portraits, cross-bone Mickey Mouse-inspired characters to subverting common ic...

For Titus Kaphar, painting is a language. In his upcoming exhibition at Gagosian, the artist reflects on his past to forge a path to forgiveness, taking the shape of a series of portraits and large-scale neighborhood scenes. Alongside the debut of his first narrative feature, the show advances Kaphar’s compositional approaches toward a home of family, memory, and community.Exhibiting Forgiveness captures life in working-class America. Kaphar channels grief and nostalgia at once, in a display of sunset-lit houses and figures excised by knife-cuts. In pieces like “For your prayer closet”, the artist conjures bittersweet beauty; layering gold leaf and tar, the piece makes space for both “divine transcendence” and feeling trapped.Other paintings call on Kaphar’s previous work with familiar tec...

The RMS Titanic sunk over 112 years ago, but the tragic legacy left by the ocean liner continues to capture imaginations a century later. As popularized through James Cameron's 1997 film, there was a wealth of art on board the ship, many of which have either been lost completely or continue to lay dormant, submerged 12,500 feet on the seafloor. Researchers recently uncovered a two-foot-tall bronze sculpture of Diana of Versailles that once stood on top of a fireplace mantle in a first class lounge.The discovery was recorded by RMS Titanic Inc, a Georgia-based company that owns the legal rights to inspect the ship's wreckage, who recently spent 20 days taking millions of high resolution scans of the site to track “historically significant and at-risk artifacts [that] can be identified for s...