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K11 Art Foundation is kicking off a series of events for Frieze Seoul, starting with its Moon Party to mark the occasion. In celebration of Korea's Moon Festival, K11 is embodying the Chuseok spirit, while celebrating creativity and synergy with its first generative art exhibition titled, Lunar Water.With the support of lead sponsor Flipster and digital screen partner LG OLED, the exhibition features immersive experiences that feature generative artworks by a'strict and Tyler Hobbs alongside a new large-scale generative artwork by Cheng Ran. Exclusive to this exhibition, Cheng Ran collaborated with Genify and Bohan Sun to reimagine his work "In Course of the Miraculous" -- a nine-hour film that first premiered at the Istanbul Biennale, to create his first generative artwork. The exhibit al...

Craft Contemporary presents 3B Collective: Highway Hypnosis, now on view in Los Angeles. The exhibition maps the cultural history of 3B Collective, a group of multi-disciplinary Angelenos, as they re-envision forces of migration and adaptation through cultural iconography. In a constellation of murals, ceramics, masks, and textiles, a look back on the group’s work brings hidden stories of indigeneity, labor, and commodity to center stage.In collaboration with skilled artisans in Oaxaca, Jalisco, El Salvador, and Baja California, the works of Highway Hypnosis embody expressions of cultural resilience that flex across borders and time. For “Freeway Weaving”, 3B comes together with Tallerocoho8, a textile space in Oaxaca founded by Beto Ruiz. With dyes made from native plants, the tapestry sh...

The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) announces the debut of their invitational art fair, The Salon. Organized in collaboration with Paris-based art space, The Community, the fair is set to gather 46 exhibitors from galleries in association with NADA and The Community’s directory of non-profit arts organizations for four days of programming at 76 Boulevard de Magenta in Paris’s 10th arrondissement. A forerunner to Paris Art Week, The Salon will take place from October 17–20, alongside a book fair on October 19.Held at the former training center for the SNCF, the country’s state-owned rail system, the five-floor venue will build on the city’s burgeoning art scene. Participating galleries include 2 Walker, Harper’s, Nil, and No Agency x Cafe Forgot, alongside big-league enterprises, and NADA m...

The neon-lit tenderness of the motorcycle in Wong Kar-wai’s film Fallen Angels has grown to be one of the most iconic shots in modern cinema. The scene captures a melancholic romanticism as Michelle Reis and Takeshi Kaneshiro’s characters become one with the bike that carries them forward, bodies folded atop one another.In Fallen Angels, Tra My Nguyen tells a story of memory and movement. Taking title cues from the cult-classic neo-noir film, Nguyen draws urban poetry from diasporic perspectives for her new solo exhibition at GROTTO. The Berlin-based artist reimagines her childhood spent in Vietnam in a series of distorted vignettes, where mobility, body politics, and gender collide in the streets of Hanoi. With a practice encompassing textile, video, and sculpture, Nguyen rethinks materia...

This week, contemporary Chinese painter, Kang Haoxian will unveil his solo exhibition, In Motion at WOAW Gallery in Hong Kong.Drawing inspiration from mythology and his personal travels, Kang is known for his large canvas paintings that blend pop culture elements with magical realism. Through In Motion, the artist reflects on human emotions and desires as well as capturing intimate moments in the form of car tires.From Kang’s standpoint, car tires have always been an integral part of modern society that served as a physical driving force for humans every day. While several pieces boast a two-dimensional interpretation of tires of luxury cars, the artist also explores urban scenarios that emerge from vehicles in artworks such as “Brave Action,” “Live Free or Die,” and “I enjoy my own tranqu...