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Charlie James Gallery is set to unveil a new group exhibition that acts as a love letter to each artist's idealized home. Curated by Los Angeles-based artist Ever Velasquez, Provócame invites creatives of various backgrounds from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Albania and Mexico to probe into the notion of what constitutes a home, from the physical to the imagined, the archival to the ancestral. Patrick Martinez, the LA-based artist whose mixed media works comment on the slow erasure of his home city's latin and chicano communities, presents a slice of a wall painted in seafoam green with verdant and floral embellishments. "It’s about the in-between," Martinez previously told Hypeart. "I want my work to look like it’s either being discovered or erased," adding that he finds inspiration in the work...

The Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai has announced Marina Abramović: Transforming Energy, the first museum exhibition in China by the internationally acclaimed artist Marina Abramović. Running from October 10, 2024, to February 28, 2025, the exhibition is inspired by Abramović's iconic 1988 performance of walking the Great Wall of China with German artist Ulay, marking them as the first international artists to traverse the Wall.Curated by MAM Shanghai’s Artistic Director Shai Baitel, in collaboration with Abramović, the exhibition will feature over 1,000 images from her Great Wall walk and a series of new artworks. Spanning three floors, the exhibition invites audience participation with artworks and objects, particularly those infused with crystals, believed to offer transformative energ...

Pharrell Williams has a vision: bringing arts competitions back to the Olympics, a tradition lost for nearly 80 years. According to a report by the Associated Press, Williams is picturing a world where the biggest sports stage also celebrates the finest in sculpture, architecture, and visual arts. Pharrell argued for the arts to be reintroduced in the Olympics by 2028 during his star-studded Louis Vuitton event in Paris last week. Speaking passionately before the event, he said, “The Olympics once had arts competitions. Sculpture, architecture, visual arts. Let’s remind everyone of that legacy and seize this moment to bring awareness.” The arts were first part of the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, where medals were awarded for architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture. This conti...

Throughout history, red has been a marker of many things: it's the color of blood and the hue our ancient ancestors chose to typically scribble against cave walls. Millennia later, the Romans are noted to have favored red as the color to decorate military attire and in modern times, red is one of the most popular primary hues for sports teams, as is for many country flags. On view at the North Carolina Museum of Art is a new exhibition that explores the history of the color red.Seeing Red is mapped out across generations, linking disparate periods, such as the Ancient Incas and the Renaissance, bridging the gap in how civilization as a whole has collectively viewed various shades of the rosy hue. The institution has described it as "arguably the most important color to human beings," becau...

A massive pigeon has perched onto the High Line in Downtown Manhattan. Well, a sculptural pigeon that is. The 16-foot-tall artwork is the brainchild of Columbian artist and filmmaker Iván Argote, whose dubbed the pudgy feathered bird Dinosaur. Pigeons aren't the most glorified bird in the animal kingdom, not like its distant cousins in the eagle and hawk. However, Argote's totemic iteration will be hard to take your eyes off of as it makes its presence felt at one of New York City's most frequented intersections. He just hopes it doesn't cause any accidents as busy New Yorkers rush past Tenth Avenue at 30th Street. As the unofficial mascot of New York, Argote sought to recontextualize the image of the pigeon, reflecting in an interview that he saw the bird as "something that people would r...