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Originally published on Hypeart.comThe Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. has announced the acquisition of 141 photographs by 20 Chinese contemporary artists that were gifted by collector and No More Rulers founder, Larry Warsh. The lot of images previously featured in an exhibition entitled “A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China,” that recently concluded at the institution on January 7.Based in New York, Warsh is noted for owning an extensive collection of pop artworks from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, as well as for his publishing arm, which has released books on Ai Weiwei, Daniel Arsham, Judy Chicago and more. While Warsh has always shown an interest in collecting work from Chinese artists, he began to understand more about the nuances and traditions of d...

Originally published on Hypeart.comThe Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. has announced the acquisition of 141 photographs by 20 Chinese contemporary artists that were gifted by collector and No More Rulers founder, Larry Warsh. The lot of images previously featured in an exhibition entitled “A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China,” that recently concluded at the institution on January 7.Based in New York, Warsh is noted for owning an extensive collection of pop artworks from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, as well as for his publishing arm, which has released books on Ai Weiwei, Daniel Arsham, Judy Chicago and more. While Warsh has always shown an interest in collecting work from Chinese artists, he began to understand more about the nuances and traditions of d...

Chinese-born, Houston-based artist Gao Hang has released a new limited edition screen print in collaboration with Exhibition A. It's Getting Serious (2024) features a glitchy depiction of a man presumably playing basketball in a neon green top and armband. Hang's comical aesthetic is intended to conjure up the now dated video game graphics of the mid-to-late '90s, having described his practice in the past as a form of "standup comedy." View this post on InstagramA post shared by EXHIBITION A (@exhibitiona)Beneath the humorous veneer of his work, however, the artist explores digital images from the end of the 20th century as found objects, denoting the interplay in technological advancement and the raw oddity of the past with the present. "Gao views his art as a complex dialogue that, much ...

Following KAWS' successful exhibition at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario last summer, where the artist made his Canadian museum debut by bringing KAWS: Family to the city, the AGO is now launching a book to commemorate the exhibit.KAWS: FAMILY arrives as a 156-page book fully illustrated to celebrate the exhibition that occurred last summer. The book includes an essay from Julian Cox, the AGO Deputy Director and Chief Curator who curated the exhibition, as well as an interview with Jim Shedden, Curator, Special Projects and Director, Publications. The book not only includes all of KAWS' pieces exhibited at the AGO -- including the GONE (2020), FAMILY (2021) piece, a painted bronze sculpture featuring COMPANION and a a bulbous figure named CHUM and a fur-covered character named BFF, posed...