Art

The first comprehensive survey of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York paintings is now on display at the Art Institute of Chicago through September 22, 2024. Created in a male-dominated art world that advised against her dark and angular approach, these paintings, drawings, and pastels of urban landscapes often remain overshadowed by her more well-known Southwestern scenes. The works of My New Yorks paved the path for O’Keeffe to become one of the most influential figures in modernist art.Before New Mexico, O’Keeffe made a home in Manhattan. The artist married photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1924, and the two moved into an apartment on the 30th floor of Midtown’s Shelton Hotel. Life in the then tallest residential building in the world gave her wings for magnificent perspective.My New Yorks envis...

American artist Josh Smith has worked with Case Studyo on a new ceramic sculptured entitled IN THE DARKEST DESPAIR A SPARK OF HOPE LIES WITHIN US.Based in New York City, Smith first rose to prominence in the 2000s through vibrant paintings that incorporated his own name as both a signature and conceptual framework to conflate the boundaries between authorship and artistic production. Over the past two decades, Smith has veered more towards abstraction, taking recognizable motifs — fish, skeletons, trees — and distorting their image in a way to emphasize and celebrate the act of painting, rather than the usual pursuit for perfection.In Smith's latest edition, he casts the grim reaper in white porcelain with hand-painted black embellishments that spell out the artist's name. The sculpture st...

RendezVous — Brussels Art Week is an annual celebration of the city’s diverse contemporary art scene, connecting galleries, institutions, artist-run spaces, and collective studios. Taking place each September, the event marks the reopening of the art season following the summer break. For its inaugural edition from September 12 to 15, 2024, RendezVous will feature 52 participating galleries, offering a packed weekend of exhibition openings, performances, and impromptu gatherings across downtown, midtown, and uptown Brussels. From works imbued with "delightful horror" by John Fou at Stems Gallery to Bilal Hamdad's naturalistic depictions of contemporary solitude at Templon, check out our list below of five must-see shows during the RendezVous festivities. Cave Canem by John Fou at Stems Ga...

Galerie Buchholz presents a new solo exhibition featuring several installations by Isa Genzken in celebration of her newly released self-titled book. On the heels of her 75th birthday, Genzken continues to build on her brilliance, inspiring a new generation with her radical curiosity and immaculate technique. Heralded as one of Germany’s most important and influential contemporary artists, the artist gives us a visual language for life in a commodified world.The exhibition presents some of the artist’s latest pieces, including Untitled (4 Türme, 3 Stelen), Untitled (Schauspieler), and Vollmond 1997. This foray in scale is chaotic and lyrical at once, probing perceptual awareness through miniature architectural figures and large-scale sculptures. Additionally, she calls on her "Schauspieler...

Dragons have appeared in virtually every culture, from East Asian art, Persian poetry, Medieval manuscripts to film and television. They aren't real of course, but have served to represent symbols of power, wisdom and destruction since antiquity. Dragons and other mythological beings have long been a fascination for Pakistani-American artist Hiba Schahbaz, who incorporates the flying beasts in her latest spiritual compositions at Almine Rech.Housed at the gallery's London location, Summer of Dragons comprises of 15 new paintings made with watercolor on wood and tea-stained paper that she builds by hand, as well as traditional oil on linen canvases. Schahbaz is trained in Indo-Persian miniature painting at the National College of Art in Lahore, and moved to Brooklyn where she received her M...

As an extension to the KAWS: HOLIDAY installation in Shanghai, AllRightsReserved has announced that it will be releasing a miniaturized version of the installation through DDTstore.Standing 8 inches tall, the “KAWS BIG MOON” functions as both a vinyl art toy and a mood light. Playing with its smaller scale, the collectible piece boasts a playful twist on its inspiration.The original installation features the COMPANION cradling a full moon while lying leisurely on the North Bund dock. The lamp features COMPANION in a less relaxing state, as the moon he’s hugging does not come in a much larger size than its body — exuding a comical effect of the character being crushed by the glowing moon.Starting September 15, 11 p.m. EDT/September 16, 11 a.m. HKT, the “KAWS BIG MOON” lamp will be available...

Johnson Tsang and Avant Arte have developed a fruitful partnership in recent years, releasing a suite of surrealist ceramic sculptures that feature contorted faces in place of utilitarian objects, from mirrors to planters. The Chinese artist and London studio are returning with a new edition entitled The Moment, a wall-mounted resin sculpture of a white featureless head and two inner faces kissing within. The artwork is based off an identical porcelain sculpture Tsang created in his Hong Kong workshop, both of which emphasize the possibilities that can happen when one opens themselves to love. “I believe in life," Tsang said in a statement. "Life is based on love, designed with wisdom, and allows us to grow through experience.”Tsang's grotesque, humorous and sometimes endearing artworks st...

In a departure from his famed land-based works, Alex Chinneck looks toward the water. The surrealist artist presents a new piece on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal in England. Dubbed The Looping Boat, the structure is fabricated from nine tons of hand-rolled steel and aluminum, standing at six meters tall and 13 meters wide. Co-funded by a British energy company E.O.N, Chinneck’s installation is part of a larger initiative, aiming to bolster development efforts of renewable energy sites in a series of public artworks.Adorned in traditional canal boat colors and a sign painted Tudor Rose, boat is an ode to Sheffield’s industrial heritage and beloved waterways. For this vessel, the artist wanted to explore the material limits of steel in order to create a piece that would dually complement t...

“A ghost is someone who has disappeared, but a spirit is a memory that remains, an energy that has lingering influence,” the late Mike Kelley writes in an early draft of Under a Sheet/Existance Problems (sic). While this performance was never realized, this concept cleanly maps onto his legacy as a provocative and influential figure in contemporary art.In early October, Tate Modern will celebrate the life and career of Mike Kelley in a retrospective exhibition. Presented in collaboration with the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bourse de Commerce,  and Moderna Museet, Ghost and Spirit marks the first major UK exhibition of the experimental artist.Spanning across sculptures, textile works, and multi-media installations, the artist confronted social order with questions of memory, desire,...

Elephants are parading through New York City. Well, a herd of sculptural elephants that is. In what some are calling the biggest outdoor public art intervention to hit New York since Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates in 2005, The Great Elephant Migration consists of 100 life-sized artworks meticulously crafted by 200 Indigenous artists over the past five years.The touring exhibition is produced by South India's Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR) and is on view in the Meatpacking District till next month. British animal rights activist Ruth Ganesh co-founded NBR with Indian elephant researcher Tarsh Thekaekara to solve two problems at once: firstly, utilize an invasive weed called lantana camara, which has threatened a number of ecosystems across India; while simultaneously raising funds f...

The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, began shaping its defining structure—a granite-clad tower housing a monumental art installation. Julie Mehretu’s Uprising of the Sun, an 83-foot-tall glass tower, has been mounted on the north facade of the building. Comprising 35 painted glass panels, the piece reflects Mehretu’s exploration of historical movements like the Civil Rights era and Chicago’s own role in shaping social change. Inspired by figures like Barack Obama and John Lewis, the artwork merges these moments with visual references from Robert S. Duncanson, Jacob Lawrence, and Ethiopian artist Afewerk Tekle.The artist drew from diverse inspirations, including Obama’s 2015 Selma speech and her personal connection to the Midwest and Ch...

Vincent Van Gogh’s Les canots amarrés (Moored Boats) will go under the hammer for the first time in thirty years at Christie’s Hong Kong. The painting is expected to fetch $230 million to $380 million HK (about $30 million to $50 million USD), becoming the most expensive piece from the artist’s time in Paris.For several decades, the painting was held in the collection of the Royal Family of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, descendants of monarchs who ruled over Sicily and southern Italy. According to Artnet, the piece was originally purchased by Italian actress Edy Vessel at Sotheby’s London in 1991, and is currently being sold by Vessel’s daughter, Princess Camilla, who acquired it through a family trust.Les canots amarrés belongs to a triptych of summer scenes in Asnières, created during Van Gogh’s...