Art

The MadeIn Art Museum is currently presenting Wang Xin's solo exhibition ‘Head Swapping Games’ through October 15, 2024. This exhibition highlights Xin's exploration of nature, bodily structures, and internal spaces, expressing the fluid relationship between these elements. Showcasing works from 2021 to 2024, Xin's art plays with the concept of transformation, using materials like pastel dust to juxtapose themes of death, rebirth, and universal particles.Inspired by childhood games, the exhibition blurs the lines between animals, humans, plants, and abstract forms. Xin reimagines creatures by swapping heads and bodies, blending insect limbs, decaying organisms, and natural elements to challenge traditional notions of form. The works dissolve boundaries between the physical and spectral, me...

Friedman Benda presents a new body of work by South African artist, healer, and spiritual leader Andile Dyalvane. In a series of textural and vibrant vessels, the exhibition renders a visual language of strength and courage. Imagining tradition and possibility through craft, Dyalvane weaves collective history and contemporary narrative to make anew.Each vessel of OoNomathotholo: Ancestral Whispers tells a story. The title conjures generational knowledge, highlighting Xhosa connections to land through the vessels, a nod to pots used to store memories in a display of rich textures and vibrant colors. Each piece is made from clay drawn from the rivers near the village of Ngobozanza, the artist’s birthplace in the Eastern Cape.Punctuated with knobs and scores, the artist joins Xhosa practices ...

The good vibes never end in the world of Amsterdam-born, Paris-based artist Pieter Ceizer. He's known for his cheerful Woody sculptures, warm-hued, large-scale canvases and playful collaborations with everyone from Paris Saint-German to Uniqlo and more. Now, he's encapsulating that positive energy in a literal way: through the aptly-named Good Vibes, his first metal edition artwork (his past metal creations have all been 1:1 gallery pieces).A "steel drawing," Good Vibes takes Ceizer's mono line drawing style and applies it in an alternate medium. Cut out of raw steel and painted in six colors — yellow, orange, pink, black and both navy and powder blue — it displays a mini-landscape inspired by a warm sunset over the ocean: "Good," spelled out in a geometric font, is sinking into the sea wh...

For Social Media, Josh Kline ushers in an era of self-obsession. On view at Lisson Gallery in New York, the artist presents his first series of self-portraits, approaching the selfie with a new realm of possibility. Through hauntingly realistic forms, the exhibition reflects a moment of self-promotion and commodification in the digital age.In this new body of work, Kline fragments the body and puzzles them back together. He expands on his decade-long exploration of social media platforms, now implicating himself in these portraits of labor. In a collection of upholstered office chairs and segmented hands clasping tools for various labor practices, the installation immortalizes work-induced exhaustion into a modern-day period piece.Located somewhere between the present and the imminent futu...

Fotografiska Berlin will open the exhibition Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious, presented in collaboration with Mass Appeal. This retrospective celebrates the transformative power of hip-hop, tracing its evolution from the Bronx in the 1970s to its global impact today. Featuring over 200 striking photographs by more than 50 renowned artists, the exhibition highlights iconic figures and pivotal moments that have shaped the culture.The exhibition's core story explores how hip-hop has united people, provided a platform for marginalized voices, and catalyzed social and political change by confronting oppression. Beyond a chronological account, the photographs showcase hip-hop as a revolutionary tool for empowerment, revealing its conscious movement and enduring influence on pop culture.The Germa...

Good Mother Gallery is moving to West Adams. To commemorate the new space, the Los Angeles-based gallery will unveil a new group exhibition tonight entitled Rendezvous. Founded 10 years ago in Oakland by French-American artist Guillaume Ollivier, Good Mother has championed a range of West Coast contemporary artists working across painting, sculpture and installation. Rendezvous will feature new and existing work from 40 artists who probe into themes related to order and chaos, intimacy, interaction and unity. Painting takes special precedence throughout the exhibition, from Paul Reidmueller's monochromatic still lifes, Nancy Hollinghurst's ephemeral reflections on memory, to a more abstracted basketball matchup by Jacob Rochester. Occupying a much larger space, Good Mother's new location i...

For Argentine-Spanish artist Felipe Pantone, superstimulation is a creative space. For his new solo show presented by Underdogs Gallery in Lisbon, Pantone explores all that unfolds when all the time is screen time. In a vibrant interplay of color, light, and geometry, the artist brings his signature optical art into conversation with everyday technology, giving the glitch a new aesthetic meaning.For Pantone, color is a participatory practice. Featuring works across painting, sculpture, and installation, Perceptual Phenomena, Color Spaces, Structural Honesty creates the visual language for a reality that can’t seem to find its footing, capturing contemporary life in full flux. As each work stands as its own chromatic microcosm, Pantone keenly oscillates between various texture, graphics, an...

The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., is set to showcase a unique pairing of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Banksy. Opening later this month, the year-long exhibition will feature Basquiat’s 1982 painting “Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump,” reportedly purchased by hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin for over $100 million USD as per Artnet.The work will be displayed alongside Banksy’s reimagined version, which includes stenciled police officers frisking Basquiat's skeletal figure. Banksy originally created the piece outside London’s Barbican Centre to highlight the irony of a street artist being exhibited in a museum that typically erases graffiti.Both artists have a history of using public spaces for their work, with Basquiat emerging from the graffiti duo SAMO and Banksy’s guer...

Plato Gallery has lifted the veil on two concurrent solo exhibitions by artists Ákos Ezer and Maude Corriveau. While each show occupies its own aesthetic terrain, they make up two sides of the same coin. Together, the artists of Living Room Campout and Depth of Surface each present a unique interpretation of escape with splendor and elegance in hand.For Ezer’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, the Hungarian artist seeks to strike a balance. According to a recent gallery statement, Living Room Campout begs the question: “If we are constantly expected to play games, why not enjoy the ride and dance with the music set for us?” Ezer’s cast of brooding hipsters mediate the fluidity of social identity as each character morphs and transforms into the shape of their occupied role: wallflowers ...

To celebrate its 200th anniversary, the Brooklyn Museum is championing creative visionaries across its namesake borough in a new group exhibition organized by Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas, Fred Tomasell and Jeffrey Gibson. The latter artist, a Brooklyn native himself, is currently exhibiting a pioneering exhibition of work at the Venice Biennale that challenges the foundation of American mythology through vibrant sculptures, installations and film, drawing from his Mississippi Choctaw-Cherokee heritage.The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition includes work from over 200 prominent and emerging figures, including Brad Kahlhammer, Nancy Grossman and Josiah McElheny. The institution received 4,000 submissions from artists across the borough. To have qualified, individuals would need to have lived or mai...