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SummaryA Tamagotchi Grand Exhibition will be held at the Roppongi Museum to celebrate its 30th anniversaryThe show features immersive installations, limited-edition Tamagotchi models and merchandiseThe exhibition runs from January 7 to February 2, 2026A Tamagotchi Grand Exhibition is set to be held to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its creation, offering visitors a chance to look back on the past three decades and explore the enduring appeal of this beloved digital creature.The exhibition will dive into the 30 years of "Tamagotchi" history, featuring immersive, hands-on installations that bring visitors into its pixelated world. Besides, the exhibition will offer the opportunity to purchase a limited-edition Tamagotchi model in collaboration with creative director Mitsuhiro Higuchi, a...

SummaryMario Ayala’s new show at CAMH features seven actual size van paintings that use the vehicle's body as a canvasAyala's new work features seven large van paintings that act as "pseudo-portraits"The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) has inaugurated ‘Seven Vans,’ the first U.S. solo museum exhibition for Los Angeles-based artist Mario Ayala. On view from November 14, 2025, through June 21, 2026, the exhibition features seven life-size van paintings that expand the artist’s celebrated use of shaped canvases.Created specifically for the CAMH, each meticulously detailed painting depicts the rear of a van, transforming the commercial and countercultural vehicle into a "pseudo-portrait." Ayala intentionally removes the wheels and other markers of function, presenting the vans as motio...

SummarySprüth Magers Los Angeles has unveiled Horror, a new group show curated by artist Jill MulleadyRunning through February 14, the exhibition gathers work from a star-studded roster stretching across generation and place, all exploring the aesthetic and psychological power of horrorWe fear what we think we know, argues Jill Mulleady, featured artist and curator of Sprüth Magers' new group show, Horror. Staged at the gallery's Los Angeles outpost, the exhibition gathers an intergenerational lineup of names exploring the aesthetic depths of horror and the tight grasp it has on our personal and collective psychologies.“Horror takes things we inherently trust — the human form, domestic spaces, children’s toys, or the natural world — and renders them repulsive," Mulleady penned in the exhib...

SummaryNicola Samorì's Classical Collapse is a unified exhibition across the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan) and Museo Capodimonte (Naples)The show features over fifty works that confront classical tradition through excavation, rewriting and ruptureRuns from late November through early 2026 across both locationsNicola Samorì’s Classical Collapse exhibition unfolds simultaneously at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan and the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, presenting itself not as two separate shows but as a unified cultural project. Curated by Demetrio Paparoni, Alberto Rocca and Eike Schmidt, the exhibition runs from late November through early 2026, symbolically bridging Northern and Southern Italy. More than fifty of Samorì’s works are displayed in dialogue with masterpieces ...