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Eduardo Sarabia is a Mexican-American artist who uses his practice as a way to explore his dual identity. Born in Los Angeles to Mexican immigrants, but now based in Guadalajara, Sarabia is known for creating distorted figurative paintings — often depicting family, friends and personal experiences — with splotchy hits of oil paint, as a way to blur the lines between fact and fiction. On view at Mexico City's Galeria OMR, Sarabia presents Four Minutes of Darkness, a new solo exhibition centered around a solar eclipse. As his first show with the gallery and the second exhibition in this eclipse-related series, Sarabia mixes personal histories with mystical and alchemical narratives, by inviting audiences to a wall-to-wall mural of a garden that winds around the space like a vine encapsulatin...

Skateboarding has always been the driving influence for acclaimed Japanese artist, Haroshi. For the past 20 years, the Tokyo-based creative has paved his own lane in the art world for creating intricate sculptures that hark to mystical characters found in Japanese history and pop culture today, but crafted using hundreds of recycled skate decks, resulting in weathered figures that appear to jump out of mythology. For his latest project, Haroshi created a one-off sculptural character for his hero, none other than arguably the most celebrated figure in the history of skateboarding, Tony Hawk. "This is my dream project and I am happy to see it come true!" noted Haroshi via Instagram. Taking cues from the head in the Birdhouse logo, the artist created a small totemic figure, almost like a wood...

Richard Serra, the legendary American artist who pioneered the Minimalist movement of the 1960s, has died at age 85. First reported by the New York Times, Serra passed away yesterday in his home in Orient, New York from complications with pneumonia. Transcending art historical traditions, Serra transformed the boundaries of sculpture by employing unorthodox materials, from fiberglass and rubber early on in his career to his signature use of weathered steel — emblematic of his massive curvilinear sculptures that have exhibited from two retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York to what some consider his Magnus opus, Band (2006), at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In a 2011 interview with The Art Newspaper, Serra was quick to avoid notions that his work was about a...