Art
Refik Anadol Opens World’s First AI Art Museum in LA
SummaryRefik Anadol opens Dataland, a new museum dedicated to AI art in Los Angeles'Machine Dreams: Rainforest' transforms rainforest data into immersive sensory installationsRefik Anadol is opening the doors to Dataland, a new cultural institution in downtown Los Angeles dedicated to exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, data and contemporary art.Opening June 20 inside the Frank Gehry-designed Grand LA complex, the permanent museum is being positioned as the world's first museum dedicated to AI arts. Located across from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Dataland marks a major milestone for the Turkish-American media artist, whose large-scale data-driven installations have appeared at institutions and public landmarks around the world.The museum's inaugural exhibition, Machine...
Arthur Jafa’s Largest Survey Is Coming to New Museum
SummaryThe New Museum in New York will open I Am Tony, a two-floor survey dedicated to artist Arthur Jafa come SeptemberThe exhibition will feature early, recent, and new artworks, including large-scale videos, paintings, film installations, photographs, and sculpturesWith his MoMA mixtape coming to a close, New York hasn’t had enough of Arthur Jafa. But lucky for us, the New Museum is stepping in. Following the building-wide New Humans takeover for its hotly anticipated reopening, next on deck for the Bowery museum will be I Am Tony, Jafa’s largest survey yet.The exhibition, opening September 24, will unravel over two floors in a mix of works, new and beloved, with a particular focus on his filmic evolution, pairing some of his earliest films beside and more recent pieces — paintings, vid...
JR Turns Paris’ Oldest Bridge Into an Overground Cave
SummaryFrench artist JR unveils his latest installation, “La Caverne du Pont Neuf”Inspired by Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 1985 work on the Parisian bridge, the work wraps the structure in fabric to resemble a limestone cavePassersby can step into the installation, which also features an earthy soundscape by Thomas Bangalter and a custom olfactory atmosphereA stone cave rises above the Seine River, courtesy of artist JR. The French artist, known for his colossal graphic interventions in the busiest of landmarks, just opened his latest work, “La Caverne du Pont Neuf,” transforming the 17th-century Pont Neuf bridge into an immersive, rocky tunnel of sight, smell, and sound.After facing weather-related damages and delays, the piece was unveiled yesterday and is open around the clock through Ju...
Laure Prouvost’s ‘We Felt a Star Dying’ Takes Over the Grand Palais Nave
SummaryLaure Prouvost’s We Felt a Star Dying transforms the Grand Palais into a quantum-inspired immersive installation, on view until July 26, 2026Highlights include "The Beginning" sculpture, "Cute Bits" meteorite forms and sensory video environmentsLaure Prouvost has transformed Paris’ Grand Palais' iconic glass-roofed nave into a multi-sensory environment, unveiling her major multimedia installation, We Felt a Star Dying. Marking the celebrated French artist's monumental takeover of the historic venue, this spectacular piece explores the counterintuitive logic of quantum physics, prompting the foundational question of how reality feels when perceived from a particle-level perspective.The ambitious project is structured as an immersive narrative world developed from Prouvost's two years...
British Artist David Hockney Dies at 88
David Hockney, the British painter known for his vibrant portraits and sunny compositions of everyday life, has passed away at 88 in his home on June 11, just one month before his 89th birthday.Hockney was regarded as one of the most beloved artists of the modern pop-art era, with a legacy defined by constant experimentation. He believed that art could change the world, a way to realize all that’s beautiful, thrilling, and mysterious, even in darkness.Born in Bradford, UK in 1937, Hockney trained at the Bradford School of Art, and later the Royal College of Art in London. Early on, he established himself at the vanguard of Britain’s new artistic generation through his singular style, moving from abstract expressionism to figurative, linear mark-making.In the 60s, he moved to Los Angeles an...
Gregory Crewdson Explores the Dark Side of Suburbia in New ‘Dream House’ Prints
SummaryGregory Crewdson is releasing six prints from his Dream House series with Avant ArteThe photographs feature a star-studded cast and explore themes like isolation and suburban uneaseThe archival pigment prints will be available as a time-limited edition starting June 30 for 48 hoursAmerican photographer Gregory Crewdson is teaming up with London-based Avant Arte to release six limited-edition prints, revisiting Dream House, one of his most cinematic and unsettling bodies of work.The series, originally commissioned by The New York Times in 2002, exemplifies some of Crewdson’s most defining artistic traits: his meticulous eye, fascination with suburban mediocrity, and ability to pinpoint darker, melancholic tensions bubbling beneath its surface.Shot in an abandoned Vermont home, the ph...
Anne Imhof Dances with Death in ‘Citizen’
SummarySprüth Magers in London is presenting a new exhibition by Anne ImhofOn through August 1, Citizen features new works — wave paintings, drawings, installation, and a film — that build on her 2025 shows, DOOM and Fun ist ein StahlbadAnne Imhof’s new solo exhibition, Citizen, has touched down at Sprüth Magers in London. Featuring film, sculpture, pastel works, and new paintings, the show builds on the German artist’s recent heavy hitters — DOOM in New York and Fun ist ein Stahlbad at Museu de Serralves in Porto — exploring themes of mortality, pleasure, restraint, and movement.A look at the German artist’s oeuvre reveals a jack of many trades, working across mediums, like performance, sculpture, painting, dance, installation, and film. From her Golden Lion-winning Faust to her immersive...
LOEWE FOUNDATION Debuts Talia Chetrit’s ‘Bunny’ Exhibition In Madrid
SummaryLOEWE FOUNDATION partners with PHotoESPAÑA 2026 to present Talia Chetrit’s Bunny at Madrid's Museo Lázaro GaldianoOn view until August 30, 2026, the artist's first Spanish institutional show spans three decades of photography, highlighting large-format works that explore motherhood and vulnerabilityLOEWE and the LOEWE Foundation are presenting Bunny, the first solo institutional exhibition in Spain by American photographer Talia Chetrit, now taking place at the Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid.Chetrit is widely recognized for her provocative and deeply personal approach to photography, often blurring the line between staged and candid imagery. In Bunny, she presents portraits, still lifes and tableaux that highlight the tension between vulnerability and performance. Shot over nearly ...
Lucien Smith Unveils ‘Burn Down the House’ at Kearsey & Gold
SummaryKearsey & Gold is showcasing Burn Down the House by American artist Lucien Smith until July 17The exhibition includes a series of small airbrushed works that explore fulfillment, ambition, and collapse through the image of Dorothy’s airborne house in The Wizard of OzThe show marks Smith’s debut U.K. presentation, as well as his first solo show since opening his restaurant, FOODAfter nearly a year as FOOD head chef, Lucien Smith returns to the canvas for Burn Down the House, his first U.K. solo at Kearsey & Gold. Running through July 17, the show features a new suite of airbrush paintings, centered on a single subject: Dorothy’s house falling through the sky from The Wizard of Oz.Grainy, miniature canvases thread through the London gallery, each a varied shot of the airborne ...
Futura, Katherine Bernhardt & More Artists Are Turning NYC Into a World Cup Sculpture Park
Summary'Art of the Game' brings 23 giant soccer ball sculptures by museum-collected artistsThe project is the final philanthropic effort of late art patron Agnes Gund, who connected the nonprofit with leadership at MoMA, the Met, the Whitney and moreAfter the tournament, five balls go to auction at Christie's, while others remain installed permanentlyThe FIFA World Cup 2026 is bringing more than matches to the New York metro area this summer. Art of the Game, a new public art initiative, will scatter 23 large-scale soccer ball sculptures across all five boroughs and northern New Jersey, each one designed by a different artist.Futura 2000, Katherine Bernhardt, Hank Willis Thomas, Eddie Martinez, Kevin Beasley, Bony Ramirez, Edgar Heap of Birds, Fred Wilson and plenty more were nominated by ...
Jenny Holzer Opens First Portugal Solo Show at Serralves Museum
SummaryJenny Holzer heads to Porto, Portugal for Wrong Answers at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary ArtOn from June 18 through November 1, the exhibition gathers works from across mediums and decades, exploring the artist's interrogations and fascination with language, power, and politicsThe show includes two new works created in collaboration with graffiti artist KilosThe Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto is readying a new exhibition by American artist Jenny Holzer. For Holzer’s first solo outing in Portugal, Wrong Answers interrogates the power of text — a medium that’s defined her career — and language’s hand in shaping freedom, democracy, and power.Since day one, Holzer’s always been an of-the-moment artist, responding to the world as news unfolds. In a contemporary cond...
Tetsuya Ishida’s Haunting Vision of Japan’s Lost Generation Lands in Paris
SummaryTetsuya Ishida's first-ever French exhibition opens at Gagosian Paris on June 10The Japanese painter's nightmarish work captures the psychological toll of Japan's 1990s economic collapseGagosian Paris opens its first exhibition dedicated to Japanese painter Tetsuya Ishida on June 10. Although Ishida died in 2005 at the age of 32, his work has gained growing international recognition in recent years, resonating with audiences far beyond Japan.Ishida came of age during Japan's "lost decade," the economic downturn that followed the collapse of the country's asset bubble in the 1990s. But his paintings aren't really about economics. They're about the anxiety, isolation, and uncertainty that defined life for a generation entering adulthood as the promises of stability and upward mobility...
