Art
AllRightsReserved and KAWS Debut Exclusive Sesame Street Figure Collection
SummaryKAWS and AllRightsReserved are collaborating with Sesame Street on a new vinyl figure collectionThe five characters are reimagined with KAWS’s signature X-eyes aestheticGlobal pre-order begins October 16 on the DDT StoreKAWS and AllRightsReserved are teaming up with Sesame Street for an exclusive figure collection. This launch, following their initial partnership in 2018, serves as an extension of the artist's iconic visual universe.The collection brings together five beloved Sesame Street characters: Elmo, Big Bird, Bert, Ernie and Oscar the Grouch. Each figure has been meticulously reimagined in KAWS's signature aesthetic with the X-eyes, and their poses taking inspiration from past KAWS figures. The toys, which are made of vinyl, will be available for purchase individually or as ...
Devin B. Johnson Gains New Momentum in ‘Crossing’
SummaryDevin B. Johnson has opened Crossing, his new solo exhibition, at Nicodim Gallery in New YorkThe showcase features a new suite of figurative and abastract paintings that elevates recurring themes, like memory, momentum and community identity into new formsNicodim in New York has lifted the veil on Crossing, Devin B. Johnson's second solo outing with the gallery. Described as "his most focused body of work to-date," Johnson's latest suite of paintings traces the fault lines between recurrent themes — entropy, legacy, memory, the collapse of form — into new expressions, drawing a map of where he's been and all that's yet to come.When approaching a canvas, Johnson first lays down figurative anchors drawn from found photographs, keepsakes and other discarded objects of affection, then c...
Invader Touches Down in Tennessee
SummaryInvader will create his first-ever pool artwork for the upcoming Ray Nashville building in TennesseeSet to open in early 2027, renderings of the artwork reveal a Space Invader-like figures inlaid across the pool floor and a frieze of characters along the rimIf you've ever wandered through Paris, you're likely no stranger to Invader, the street artist who's been slowly turning the French capital into his personal arcade. For the last two decades, Invader, born Franck Slama, has kept steadfast in his craft, leaving his 8-bit imprint on over 79 cities across 20 countries.In the wake of Triple Trouble, his ongoing show with Damien Hirst and Shepard Fairey, the artist announces his first ever Nashville "invasion": a rooftop mosaic at Ray Nashville, an upcoming residential space weaving f...
Upcoming Bob Ross Auction to Benefit Public TV Stations Facing Funding Cuts
SummaryAround 30 Bob Ross paintings head to the auction block in support of public television stations facing funding cutsThe auction series kicks off with a three-piece sale at Bonhams Los Angeles on November 11Dozens of original artworks by Bob Ross, the soft-spoken legend of at-home art, will go under the hammer in a series of auctions to benefit public TV stations scrambling for new financial lifelines after recent federal funding cuts. The collection includes around 30 paintings, many of which were created on-air during Ross's hit PBS series, The Joy of Painting.The first auction of three works is slated for November 11 at Bonhams in Los Angeles, with subsequent sales planned for London, New York, Boston and online. All proceeds will go toward stations nationwide that run content from...
Jon Rafman’s ‘Nine Eyes of Google Street View’ Gets the Museum Treatment
SummaryJon Rafman's “Nine Eyes of Google Street View” takes center stage in Report a concern - The Nine Eyes Archives, now on view at Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtThe exhibition features original images from the ongoing “Nine Eyes” project, alongside a film and a new AI piece based off the seriesWhen Google unleashed its fleet of camera-mounted Street View cars in 2007, it accidentally gave rise to a new way of seeing — an endless, automated stare that captured life's strange, funny, poetic and sometimes brutal moments as they unravelled. It's a gaze, indifferent to beauty and morality, that caught the attention of Canadian artist Jon Rafman.In 2008, Rafman began his own archive of unusual captures, blossoming into “Nine Eyes of Google Street View,” a move that would later become one of t...
Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2025 Biennial Brings Opulent “Assymetries” into Focus
SummaryThe seventh edition of the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A. artist biennial is currently on view through March 1, 2026Curated by Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha, this edition features 28 artists across generations and mediums from the greater L.A. areaUnconfined to a single theme, the works on view span painting, installation, sculpture, film, photography, sound, video and theater, reflecting the city's mosaic of culture“Neither myth nor monolith, Los Angeles is many things to many people, and its dissonance is perhaps its most distinguishing feature,” wrote the Hammer Museum, in the lead-up to its acclaimed Made in L.A. biennial. Now in its seventh edition, the showcase returns, this time with the spotlight on 28 artists whose practices span generations, lineages and mediums. As the...
Mercer Labs Brings ‘One Piece’ to Life in Immersive Exhibition
SummaryThe experience marks 25 years 'One Piece' first aired in JapanThe exhibition encompasses 11 rooms and runs until November 30 in Mercer Labs' NYC locationToei Animation and Mercer Labs have joined forces for "ONE PIECE x MERCER LABS", an immersive exhibition celebrating Eiichiro Oda’s legendary anime series. Open now at Mercer Labs, the experience marks over 25 years since One Piece first aired in Japan. Today, the franchise spans 15 feature films, countless games and one of the most devoted fanbases in anime history.The exhibition encompasses 11 rooms, reimagining the "Land of Wano" arc through large-scale installations of sound, light and motion. Visitors enter through the "Window Room," where a circular ceiling screen revisits the Straw Hat Crew’s voyage to the samurai-filled nati...
Juergen Teller Gets Personal in ‘You Are Invited’
SummaryAcclaimed photographer Juergen Teller is set to open his expansive you are invited mid-career survey at Onassis Ready in Athens GreeceOpening on October 19, the exhibition will feature some of Teller's most iconic images and videos, alongside never-before-seen works, personal portraits and still-lifes, spanning his early days in London todaySat at the vanguard of fashion photography, Juergen Teller has built a career off a defiant eye. Internationally renowned for his celebrity portraits, provocative editorials and striking luxury campaigns, his work dismantles the fantasy of perfection, opting for an unguarded immediacy that's blunt, beautiful and above all, alive.Now, Teller is ushering in a new chapter. For his latest move, the German photographer is gearing up to open you are in...
teamLab Opens Biovortex Kyoto, Its Largest Museum in Japan
SummaryA new teamLab permanent museum, Biovortex Kyoto, has opened in JapanIt features over 50 immersive artworks, including a previously unexhibited pieceThe museum also offers educational projects and opportunities for co-creationteamLab has opened the doors to its latest permanent art museum, Universe of Existence, Universe of Perception: teamLab Biovortex Kyoto, in the Minami-ku area. As part of the Kyoto Station Southeast Area Project, this expansive new space will span over 10,000 square meters, making it the largest exhibition by the art collective in Japan.The museum will feature over 50 immersive artworks, offering a diverse and compelling experience. Among the highlights is "Massless Amorphous Sculpture," an artwork that has not been previously exhibited in Japan. This piece is b...
Almine Rech Shuts Down London Gallery After 11 Years
SummaryPowerhouse dealership Almine Rech has announced the closure of its Mayfair gallery in LondonThe latest gallery to shutter amid the market's shaky waters, the French gallerist maintains that the English capital will remain a central site of overall strategyAfter more than a decade in London, Almine Rech has officially shuttered its Mayfair outpost. First reported by The Art Newspaper, the Paris-born powerhouse confirmed that its UK arm entered voluntary liquidation in August, shortly after its final Gregor Hildebrandt solo, naming the move as a "technical step to restructure a lease that no longer aligned with [its] plans."Filings to Companies House suggest that the gallery holds a £6.3 million GBP deficit, though French gallerist, Rech herself, noted that "the gallery has no unpaid ...
Woodbury House Honors Lee Quiñones with Landmark ‘Outside is America’ Show
Summary'Outside of America' highlights Lee Quiñones' longstanding practice of using art as a form of social commentaryThe landmark exhibition will feature his iconic subway murals to his more recent work that has never been shown to the publicLondon’s Woodbury House will host a monumental exhibition centering on he influential New York City-based, Puerto Rican artist Lee Quiñones. Entitled Outside is America, the presentation will highlight Quiñones’ longstanding practice of using art as a form of social commentary to highlight socio-political issues including nuclear war, poverty, racism and classism. The exhibition will also shed light on his impactful contributions to the New York City street art movement such as his iconic subway car murals in 1974 to his developing artist years in the...
Esmaa Mohamoud Explores What Remains After Innocence in New Los Angeles Show
SummaryEsmaa Mohamoud explores the fragility of innocence and the soul in What Does Webster's Say About Soul?, now on view at Roberts Projects in Los AngelesFeaturing five new shea butter and black granite sculptures, the show hones in on themes of mortality, sacredness and the precarity of existence through the lens of Black youthAt Roberts Projects in Los Angeles, Esmaa Mohamoud probes into the injured soul. What Does Webster's Say About Soul?, titled after a line in Gil Scott-Heron's 1970 spoken word track "Comment #1", moves through questions of harm, injustice and endurance through the interiority of Black youth as they confront the theft of innocence and the precarity of their own existence.Building on a body conceptual interventions into Black visual culture — be it Cadillac low rid...
