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Fondazione Prada is set to open a new exhibition by game auteur Hideo Kojima and filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn. The latest collaboration from the long-time friends and creative allies, Satellites explores the “universal concept of connection” across language, territory and mediums.Housed at Prada Aoyama in Tokyo, the exhibition immerses visitors to a mid-century domestic space, characteristic of their shared cinematic flair. In the main space, six retrofuturistic televisions broadcasting the artists in meditative dialogue, circling topics of identity, technology death and what endures beyond.Meanwhile, a cassette player and a stack of tapes sit in a nearby dressing room. Overlaying cinematic scores with various translations of the artist’s conversations in different languages, each visito...

Maurizio Cattelan’s "America" (2016), a fully functioning toilet cast in 18-karat gold, was stolen from England’s Blenheim Palace this past February. According to reports, the $6 million USD sculpture was broken up and allegedly sold off in parts to a London jeweler. In March, the thieves were found guilty. Cattelan has yet to comment publicly on the incident, but in what feels like a pointed response, he’s unveiled a new solo exhibition titled Bones.Now on view at Gagosian London, Bones features a series of 24K gold-plated panels riddled with bullet holes. The gallery describes the damaged surfaces as “metaphors for creation and destruction,” exploring the uneasy relationship between material wealth and the widespread availability of deadly weapons. Although not emphasized, the gallery hi...

At the Whitney Museum of American Art, celebrated painter Amy Sherald is unveiling American Sublime, marking her first New York museum solo show. In a suite of nearly 50 paintings, including her powerful portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, the exhibition traces her journey from 2007 into today in lyrical compositions, centering the beauty and depth of Black life in America.Sherald paints with a steady, loving hand. Taking technical cues from the American Realist tradition – a movement which originated in the halls of HBCUs – she captures the faces of those left out of the art historical narrative, each opulent in their ordinariness and radiant individuality.“Sherald’s contemplative subjects appear most concerned with their own interiority, prioritizing their own peace and self-...

After successful showcases in London, Boston, and San Francisco, Hallyu! The Korean Wave is now making its fourth appearance in Zurich, showing at the historic Museum Rietberg this Spring/Summer season.The touring exhibition, curated by the Victoria and Albert Museum, responds to the growing popularity of contemporary Korean culture across the globe. Going back to the late ‘90s, it spotlights nearly three decades of art, design, music, and cinema that have all individually played a part in the country’s modern-day movement, widely recognized as “Hallyu” or “Korean Wave.”Everything from K-pop to K-dramas are featured in the exhibition via a mixed media archive comprising magazines and photographs as well as costumes from the hit Netflix show Squid Game and a reproduction of the set from the...

Over the last several years, contemporary art widened a curious eye toward video games. More than a pastime, these games have helped shape how we feel, understand and interact with the world around us – both online and off.A new group show at The Hole in Tribeca brings this influence into sharp focus. Titled LFG, the exhibition features a lineup of 13 international artists, each interested in gaming as a visual language and cultural force. Together, they ask: what happens when art grows up on boss fights, glitches and open-worlds?Circling Kévin Bray’s iconic animated sculpture, 4exs, the exhibition offers a multi-medium survey: Gao Hang brings a health kit, a classic in-game item, into pixelated reality; while Ksawery Komputery and Luke Murphy evoke the glitchy feedback with code and light...

Kenny Schachter’s latest show at Jupiter on NYC's Lower East Side is a nod to Walter Benjamin’s 1935 essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Benjamin argued that mass-produced modes of mechanical reproduction, whether in media or culture, undermines the "aura" of art. Schacter describes Benjamin as a "prescient thinker" who would be aghast at how people today are highly engaged with Internet culture and technology including AI.Schacter is a key figure when it comes to conversations, concepts and material revolving around art and technology, automation and authorship. For his latest show, Art in the Age of Robotic Reproduction, he reflects on Benjamin's essay through a collection of tech-meets-handmade work that question creativity and challenge the "hand of the artist...