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Hannah Traore Gallery has unveiled a new solo exhibition by rising Pakistani artist and fashion designer, Misha Japanwala. Born in London and now based in New York, Japanwala captures the nuances of the human figure — a process she started by painting silicone and plastic on her own body. The resulting works are elegant sculptural casts that chronicles and celebrates stories of femme, queer, and trans lives in her native Pakistan. For her latest show, entitled Beghairati Ki Nishaani, which translates to Traces of Shamelessness in Urdu, Japanwala presents new work that uses the body as a vehicle of resistance and resilience. In one series, Japanwala invited friends and strangers in her native Karachi to have their breasts molded. Some participants were recently divorced, another had breast ...

A new large-scale installation by New York-based artists Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy has been set up above a set of escalators in the Multi-Modal Facility (MMF) of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Titled REACH, the art piece features two hand sculptures spanning 27 ft and 31 ft. Hanging in mid-air, the hands portray a reaching motion just fractions away from contact.“As longtime collaborators we have had an incredible opportunity to create an artwork together and reframe a piece of public space, where most are in transit and passing through, for interconnectivity and togetherness,” Thomas and Kennedy said in a joint statement. “REACH is a connection point and large-scale gesture that inspires us to come together.”The sculptural hands are part of a larger expansion and modern...

Ai Weiwei has collaborated with Avant Arte on three new print editions. Each artwork is made using innovative printing techniques and features the Chinese dissident artist's stance on freedom of speech and migration. In the first, Middle Finger in Black revisits Weiwei's seminal Study of Perspective series from 1995, in which the artist stresses the importance of our collective freedom to express our individual beliefs. Laid against a black backdrop, the silkscreen print features a medley of middle fingers that are hand finished in white gold leaf. Conceptually similar, Free Speech overlays the Twitter bird on a colorful grid of barbed wire. The eleven color screen print contains phosphorescent details and is an ode to the papercut artworks made by Weiwei's father, who was a renowned poet ...

A South Korean student has eaten Maurizio Cattelan's controversial banana installation, Comedian (2019). The reason? He skipped breakfast and was hungry.The incident occurred on Sunday when Noh Huyn-soo from Seoul National University was visiting the Leeum Museum of Art and found the artwork more than just visually appealing. After devouring the fruit, he taped up the peel back into its place and told the museum that his act was an art performance in itself.Credit: shwan.han/Instagram “Damaging a work of modern art could also be (interpreted as a kind of) artwork,” Noh told the Korea Herald. Leeum replaced the banana with a fresh one, as they do every three to four days and notified Cattelan of the incident, but the artist made no comment. Comedian first made headlines when the sculpture ...