Art

In the run up to next week's Salone del Mobile, French visual artist JR has unveiled a new site specific installation at Milan's Stazione Centrale, entitled La Nascita (The Birth). JR is known for creating colossal graphic interventions that have appeared across the world, from Paris' Palais Garnier to the doorsteps of the Pyramids of Giza.His latest installation features an illusionary trompe l’oeil effect, as a monochromatic depiction of a mountainous terrain forks through the entrance to the train station. “In spaces that have social issues, my work is about bringing people together,” JR told The Art Newspaper. “In a place like this, a huge range of people come to catch the train. When they find themselves in front of an exhibition, they will suddenly have a different kind of interactio...

Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne is home to one of Germany's most esteemed art collections, from Goya and Manet to Van Gogh and Warhol. Last month, however, visitors and employees alike witnessed an unexpected painting in the institution that was allegedly put on view by one of its own staff.First reported by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the 51-year-old technician and aspiring artist was fired for hanging his own artwork next to works by Warhol for eight hours “in the hope of achieving his artistic breakthrough”, according to local authorities. “The employee considers himself as an artist and most likely saw his role in the museum’s installation team as a day-job to support his true calling,” a museum spokesperson told the Guardian. The incident first occurred on February 23, b...

Skarstedt London is showcasing a selection of five mural-sized paintings created by Jeff Koons between 2001 and 2013. The art on view was first commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin in 2000, and features works from the American artist's Easyfun-Ethereal, Popeye and Antiquity series'. Colorful and chaotic, Koons' oil paintings draw on the history of American advertisements, purposefully conflating images tied to mass consumerism, such as food packaging and inflatable children's toys, with more blatantly sexual subject matter — from bare feet, hands and bikinis to ancient Greco-Roman sculptures of a phallus. "My Easyfun-Ethereal paintings are very layered," Koons explained in the past. "My interest has always been to create art that can change with any culture or society viewing it....

British artist Louise Giovanelli has unveiled a new solo exhibition at White Cube Hong Kong. Based in Manchester, Giovanelli creates luminous paintings that oscillate between figuration and abstraction, representation and materiality, as she draws from art historical traditions, from the Renaissance to film. Here on Earth presents a new series of oil paintings entitled Maenad (2023–24). Similar to her Entheogen (2023) body of work, Giovanelli recreates women paused in moments of tension and ecstasy that are inspired by 1980s film stills and titled after the women followers of Bacchus (Dionysus in Greek mythology), who represented the god of wine, fertility, festivity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy and theatre. Giovanelli latest works embark on an exploration into revelation, as she al...

The city of Paris may reinstall a towering steel sculpture by the late American artist Richard Serra, following his death last month. Clara-Clara, which Serra had originally created back in 1983 for an exhibition at Centre Pompidou, features two 118-foot-long slender rusty steel sheets that extend slightly off-kilter, once forming a pathway at the Tuileries Garden just in sight of the historic Place de la Concorde.Just two years after its unveiling, Clara-Clara was purchased by the city and relocated to a smaller park in Paris' 13th arrondissement, resulting in criticism from the public who both defaced it with graffiti and demanded its removal. To the dismay of Serra, city officials would end up storing the sculpture in 1993 on the outskirts of Paris at the Fonds Municipaux d’Art Contempo...

The Donald Judd Foundation is suing Kim Kardashian for falsely claiming work by the prolific Minimalist artist during a promotional video tour of her Skkn by Kim offices. “These Donald Judd tables are really amazing,” Kardashian said in the 2022 video, describing two large wooden tables, which "totally blend in with the seats."First reported by the New York Times, the non profit filed a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and also named Clements Design, who produced the tables, over trademark and copyright infringement. “Consumers are likely to believe Judd Foundation and the Donald Judd brand are connected or affiliated with, or otherwise sponsored or endorsed Ms. Kardashian,” the lawsuit states, adding, “Judd Foundation categorically prohibits ...

Eduardo Sarabia is a Mexican-American artist who uses his practice as a way to explore his dual identity. Born in Los Angeles to Mexican immigrants, but now based in Guadalajara, Sarabia is known for creating distorted figurative paintings — often depicting family, friends and personal experiences — with splotchy hits of oil paint, as a way to blur the lines between fact and fiction. On view at Mexico City's Galeria OMR, Sarabia presents Four Minutes of Darkness, a new solo exhibition centered around a solar eclipse. As his first show with the gallery and the second exhibition in this eclipse-related series, Sarabia mixes personal histories with mystical and alchemical narratives, by inviting audiences to a wall-to-wall mural of a garden that winds around the space like a vine encapsulatin...

Skateboarding has always been the driving influence for acclaimed Japanese artist, Haroshi. For the past 20 years, the Tokyo-based creative has paved his own lane in the art world for creating intricate sculptures that hark to mystical characters found in Japanese history and pop culture today, but crafted using hundreds of recycled skate decks, resulting in weathered figures that appear to jump out of mythology. For his latest project, Haroshi created a one-off sculptural character for his hero, none other than arguably the most celebrated figure in the history of skateboarding, Tony Hawk. "This is my dream project and I am happy to see it come true!" noted Haroshi via Instagram. Taking cues from the head in the Birdhouse logo, the artist created a small totemic figure, almost like a wood...