Art

SummaryOpake and Slawn fuse anime-inspired works with chaotic overpainting in 'TABOO'The project spans a 'Big Issue' cover, limited drops and a surprise London pop-upTwo of the UK’s most unfiltered names, Opake and Slawn, are linking up for TABOO, a project that blurs the line between what’s explicit, what’s acceptable and what gets shut down. It started on September 15 with Opake stepping in as guest editor for The Big Issue. He designed the cover and sat down with Slawn for an unfiltered conversation on labels, censorship, faith, addiction and how breaking rules can sometimes be the best way forward.The collaboration takes shape on September 25 with a release of hand-painted skate decks, original canvases and editioned prints on Slawn’s site. The centerpiece of the collaboration is a ful...

SummaryMarina Abramović deconstructs her famous "Blue Period" and "Red Period" video-based works as 1,200 individual photographic stillsEach still is unique and one of one, offering collectors a chance to acquire a tangible piece of her performancesIn a new exhibition at Saatchi Yates in London, renowned conceptual artist Marina Abramović is giving her work a radical new form. The landmark show reimagines two of her famous performance videos, "Blue Period" and "Red Period," by transforming them into a series of 1,200 individual photographic stills.Akin to the artist periods of Picasso and Matisse, Abramović’s pieces explore the extremes of human emotion and physical endurance in her own chapter. In "Red Period," she is seen in a close up, bathed in red light with her expression shifting be...

SummaryAlfonso Gonzalez Jr.’s NO PARKING at Matthew Brown Gallery uses cars and urban structures to reflect the hidden lives of LA residentsThe exhibition features sculptures, multi-panel paintings and textured worksMatthew Brown Gallery opens NO PARKING, the second solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., on view through October 29.The show presents vehicles as markers of city life. Burned vans, tagged trucks, crowded RVs and idle food trucks stand in for the people who inhabit them. Although no figures appear, the presence of workers, commuters and residents is strongly felt. Gonzalez Jr. treats each vehicle as a portrait of survival, time and memory.The exhibition begins with two large-scale sculptures that resemble makeshift "No Parking" barriers and signage. T...

SummaryOpening October 10 and running through March 29, 2026, the show is presented in partnership with HENI and curated by Connor HirstEach artist’s signature style is reimagined in new forms across individual and collaborative worksNewport Street Gallery will host Triple Trouble, a major exhibition bringing together Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst and Invader. Opening October 10 and running through March 29, 2026, the show is presented in partnership with HENI and curated by Connor Hirst.The exhibition spans all six gallery spaces and presents both individual works and first-time collaborations. Visitors can expect a mix of painting, sculpture, installations and mosaics that blend fine art with street culture. Each artist’s signature style is reimagined in new forms: Fairey’s OBEY imagery, ...

SummaryJaejun Lee's solo exhibition Stillness in Blue - Captured Moments is on view at otherthings by THE SHOPHOUSE until October 12, 2025It features his signature lake-blue glazed porcelain, including modern interpretations of Korean moon jarsotherthings by THE SHOPHOUSE is currently presenting Stillness in Blue - Captured Moments, the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by UK-based Korean ceramist Jaejun Lee. Building on his success at Art Collaboration Kyoto last year, Lee unveils a series of his signature lake-blue glazed porcelain pieces made from the same Korean clay he’s carried over 5,000 miles.Lee’s practice is defined by a delicate balance between dynamism and calm. Each work undergoes dozens of unseen stages from preparation, forming, glazing to finishing — where meticulous focus...

SummaryWhaam! shows Ricky Powell’s early 1980s New York photosFeatures everyday street life and peers like Basquiat, FuturaRicky Powell’s path as a photographer began in the mid-1980s after a breakup left him restless in downtown New York. Borrowing a camera once belonging to his ex-girlfriend, Powell started taking photos to pass the time. What began as a way to process heartbreak quickly grew into a lifelong practice of documenting the city around him.On view at Whaam!, RICKY POWELL: NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHS 1980–1990 presents an intimate archive of Powell’s earliest work. Long before his well-known portraits of the Beastie Boys or hip-hop legends, Powell was a local kid wandering Washington Square Park, SoHo and the Lower East Side, capturing friends, storefronts, graffiti and everyday scen...

SummaryMarking the second solo exhibition of Chinese-born, New York-based painterThe show takes inspiration from Martin Scorsese’s 'After Hours' filmMai 36 Galerie in Zurich presents Afterglow, the second solo exhibition of Chinese-born, New York-based painter Leon Xu, on view through November 1, 2025. The show takes inspiration from Martin Scorsese’s After Hours, drawing on its atmosphere of chaos, shifting control and the uneasy pull of the night.Xu interprets the film’s mood rather than its storyline, using airbrush and acrylic to create paintings that blur edges and dissolve into dreamlike impressions. Works such as “Skyline,” “Neon Letters” and “Veils of Light” appear like half-remembered moments, suspended between clarity and disappearance. The canvases capture the glow of fleeting e...