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For those who live in cities like Los Angeles, a car is an indispensable part of daily life. It's the primary means to get from point A to B, and has in effect played a decisive role in paving both the physical landscape of many world metropolis', along with the unspoken class codes tied to consumer culture. Hauser & Wirth LA is showcasing a new exhibition at its Downtown space that aptly examines the semiotics of car culture by conceptual artist Jason Rhoades. Born in Northern California, Rhoades, whose short career spanned the 1990s till his death in 2006, created highly ornate installations — often conflating neon signage, found objects and materials inspired by LA's car culture to comment on themes pertaining sexuality, consumer culture and more. In DRIVE, the show comprises of scu...

Slovenian artist Evgen Čopi Gorišek returns to world of editions with a new collaborative sculpture made by AllRightsReserved. The Boom has been in the works for a year and features a boxer cast in bronze and hand-painted with oil stick. According to a statement via Instagram, the sculpture is inspired by his childhood wanting to be a boxer and watching Rocky films.Entirely self-taught, Gorišek's humorous aesthetic draws on various iconography across pop culture — whether Bruce Lee, a reclining nude or a skater — which he strips the subject of its facial features, in place of uniform smiley expressions. In many ways, Gorišek's figurative artworks are both a satire on the picture-perfect veneer of social media images, as well as the lack of communication that transpires with fleeting en...

Oliver Beer is a British artist who creates installations, sculptures, videos, and live performances that evoke the musicality of objects. In the past, he's surveyed the Met's vast collection of historical artifacts, attaching microphones to 32 separate works, that together, reverberated the hidden acoustics of each antique's interior. For his latest show, Beer has taken over Almine Rech's Tribeca space to showcase an entire "band" made of various cat sculptures — from classical works of tigers and cheetahs to kitschy vessels depicting pop cultural figures, such as Tom from Tom & Jerry. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Oliver Beer Artist (@oliverbeerartist)Ceremonially laid in the center of the gallery, Beer attached a microphone inside each object, which feeds into a custom...