Art
An In-Depth Look at Hypeart and Bonhams’ ‘Under the Same Sky’ Exhibition
Across the vast landscape of artmaking since the late 20th century, artists on the West Coast have explored many thresholds and states of being — decay and seduction, struggle and release, birth and aftermath. Embracing new materials and social realities, artists turned inward, while engaging with the energies unraveling around them. The lines between interior and exterior give way. Embodiment, emotion and environment fold into one another under the same sky. This is a careful dance best exemplified in Ernie Barnes’ Sketch for Boxing No. 2 (circa 1984). The intense and energetic composition suspends conflict at a midpoint when force gives way to a moment of mutual recognition. Rather than a rigorous struggle for power or display of brute force, the strength of each boxer emanates through ...
The Playful Afterlife of Empire in Mohamed Monaiseer’s “I, Pet Lion”
As long as art has told us a story of beauty, it’s told us one of power. Egyptian artist Mohamed Monaiseer anchors itself in this duality in his series “I, the Pet Lion” recently presented with Cairo-based Gypsum Gallery at Art Basel Qatar, exploring how colonial history makes its way into “seductive yet insidious” objects of play. While glittering, regal and whimsical, Monaiseer’s works don’t aim to soften power’s edges, but expose how aesthetics of domination disguise themselves in even our most unassuming rituals.Monaiseer traces how the language of conflict embeds itself in what we know play to be — if war is a game, then people are its pawns. Chessboards and Ludo sets hang beside shields and banners clad with mythical creatures, recalling childhood relics while collapsing the lines be...
Anish Kapoor Presents New ‘Mirror Works’ in NYC
Summary ‘Mirror Works’ spotlights Anish Kapoor’s reflective stainless-steel sculptures that distort space and perception The New York show arrives amid a major run of international museum exhibitionsA focused presentation of mirror sculptures by Anish Kapoor has opened in New York's Lisson Gallery under the title 'Mirror Works', bringing together pieces created between 2010 and the present. The exhibition continues the artist’s decades-long exploration of scale, color, volume and material, foregrounding stainless-steel forms that shift and destabilize the viewer’s sense of space.Known for transforming perception into a physical experience, Kapoor approaches sculpture not as a static object but as a spatial event. His reflective surfaces bend architecture, swallow light and return distorted...
Hypeart to Present ‘Under the Same Sky’ With Bonhams During Frieze LA 2026
Summary Hypeart and Bonhams are partnering to present the "Under the Same Sky" exhibition at Frieze LA 2026 The curated collection highlights Postwar West Coast art that blends internal emotions with the outside worldAs the global art world gathers on the West Coast for Frieze Los Angeles next week, Hypeart is proud to announce the next chapter of our ongoing curatorial partnership with Bonhams. Co-curated by Hypeart’s Erin Ikeuchi and Keith Estiler, a special presentation titled Under the Same Sky will be featured within Bonhams' Made in California and Beyond exhibition and auction.The curation explores the rich legacy and energy of Postwar West Coast art. It captures a unique era when artists were responding to shifting social realities and experimenting with unconventional materials. Ra...
Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka Spotlights Jeff Koons in ‘Paintings and Banality’
SummaryThe show brings together key works from the 1980s to the artist’s more recent large-scale paintingsThe exhibition shows how Koons transforms the familiar into something largerTo mark the 20th anniversary of the Espaces Louis Vuitton and the 10th anniversary of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Hors-les-murs program, Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka is presenting a focused exhibition of Jeff Koons. The show brings together key works from the 1980s to the artist’s more recent large-scale paintings, offering a concise look at how his practice has evolved over four decades.Titled Paintings and Banality, the exhibition highlights Koons’s long-standing interest in everyday objects and popular culture. Since the 1980s, he has blurred the line between high art and mass culture, using images drawn fro...
Tiny Michelangelo Foot Sketch Smashes Records, Selling for $27.2 Million USD
SummaryA previously unknown Michelangelo sketch has sold for $27.2 million USD at Christie's New York, setting a new auction record for the artistThe drawing, a study of a foot for the Libyan Sibyl on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, was estimated to sell for just $1.5–$2 millionThe work was discovered after the owner submitted a photo to Christie's online valuation portal, unaware of its true origin, becoming the only known study for the Sistine Chapel to remain in private handsIn a stunning upset for the art world, a palm-sized sketch of a foot by Renaissance master Michelangelo has obliterated auction expectations. The drawing, titled Study of a right foot, sold for a staggering $27.2 million USD at Christie's New York earlier this month on February 5. Originally estimated to fetch between $...
Art Basel Just Wrapped Up Its Inaugural Edition In Qatar
With art fairs in Miami Beach, Hong Kong, Paris, and its flagship location in Basel, Art Basel recently added to its annual schedule of events with a week-long showcase in Doha, Qatar. The arrival of the contemporary art fair was, naturally, met with anticipation from those in the industry, with many quick to predict which artists and galleries would be part of the line-up. Having wrapped up the inaugural edition last week, Hypebeast takes a look back at the presentations and Special Projects that came out on top amongst its 17,000+ visitors. Kicking off the event, chairperson of Qatar Museums, Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, led an intimate discussion with arts patron and founder of LUMA, Maja Hoffmann, and Serpentine Gallery art director Hans Ulrich Obrist. As part of...
New Museum’s ‘New Humans’ Comeback Show Looks to the Future
SummaryThe New Museum in New York is set to open New Humans: Memories of the FutureOpening on March 21, the expansion's inaugural showcase features over 700 that reimagine the relationship between humanity and technologyIn an era drunk on algorithmic prophecy, the presence (and fear) of the mechanized nonhuman is ever-present. Yet with every new technology that comes our way, we’re forced to face the same question that artists and scientists have been wrestling with for centuries: what does it mean to be human?With excitement high for the long-anticipated reveal of the New Museum’s OMA-designed expansion, the institution has announced the full artist list for its expansive comeback show, New Humans: Memories of the Future. A fitting theme for the newly revamped building, the exhibition exp...
Transmediale Returns To Berlin, ‘Re-wiring’ A Web that Extends Globally
Words by Will Allstetter for HypeartAt the end of January, Transmediale returned to Berlin for its 39th edition. The art and digital culture festival wove through the city and took root in an eclectic mix of venues, ranging from Berghain to the Canadian Embassy. Navigating the programming required transferring between trams, subways, buses and cars, as well as shuffling on frozen-over sidewalks.Though partly a logistical byproduct, the geographical network the festival embedded into the city was cannily on target for its theme: “By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road.” In their thematic compass, curators Neema Githere and Juan Pablo García Sossa write, “the festival is reimagined as a living recursive carrier net — a hammock of relational technologies in practice that stretch across latitud...
Jahan Loh Reimagines Chinese Deities as Interstellar Travelers in ‘The Fortune Trilogy’ Exhibit
SummaryJahan Loh has unveiled The Fortune Trilogy, a new solo exhibition curated by artceo at Singapore’s Tanjong Pagar DistriparkThe show reinterprets the traditional Chinese trinity of Fu Lu Shou (Blessing, Prosperity, and Longevity) through monumental astronaut sculpturesExclusive merchandise accompanies the exhibition, including a bespoke Incense Chamber by Kuumba and gold jewelry by Point JoaillerieSingaporean artist Jahan Loh has officially opened The Fortune Trilogy, a genre-bending exhibition that transports ancient Chinese iconography into a chrome-laden future. Launching today, February 13, at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, the show serves as a cosmic invocation of renewal just in time for the Lunar New Year, reimagining the enduring symbols of Fu Lu Shou—the deities of blessing, pros...
Ruth Asawa’s Massive Retrospective Heads to Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
SummaryThe Guggeneheim Museum Bilbao is set to host Ruth Asawa: Retrospective, after stops at MoMA and SFMOMAOpening in March, the exhibition covers six-decades of live and practice, from her upbringing in a Japanese internment camp to works completed in her home-studio in her final yearsWorks on view include nature-inspired tied-wire pieces, clay and bronze casts, paperfolds, paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, lithographs and an abundance of her famed looped-wire sculptures“An artist is not special,” the legendary Ruth Asawa once said. “An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.” Asawa, a West Coast favorite turned canon name, made work that changes the way we look at the elemental world and what it can teach us.Following stops at the Museum of Mode...
Casa de Los Leones Opens as a New Platform for Contemporary Mexican Craft
Summary The project marks the brand’s move into hospitality through a contemporary art and design focused lens Original architectural elements were preserved and paired with custom furniture, ceramics, textiles and artworks that feel embedded in the space rather than stagedClase Azul México has opened Casa de Los Leones, a new cultural space housed in a restored historic mansion in Polanco. Opening February 17, the project marks the brand’s move into hospitality through a contemporary art and design focused lens, positioning the house as a platform for contemporary Mexican craftsmanship and creative collaboration.The restoration and design were led by C Cúbica Arquitectos, working directly with Mexican designers, artisans and artists across multiple floors of the home. Original architectur...
