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Originally published on Hypeart.comPro-Palestine activists have destroyed a century-old painting of former British Prime Minister, Lord Balfour. Housed at the University of Cambridge's Trinity College, a member part of the group Palestine Action was recorded slashing and spray painting the artwork earlier today in a plea to call out “the bloodshed of the Palestinian people since the Balfour Declaration was issued,” according to the group in a statement. Arthur James Balfour was a former politician, who served a brief stint as prime minister of the UK from 1902 to 1905. He is arguably most remembered for expressing British approval of Zionism, particularly of a Jewish homeland within Palestine, which would come to fruition decades later in 1948 through the United Nations Partition Plan for ...

Originally published on Hypeart.comThe Kunstmuseum Basel is being shown in a new light, the light installations of Dan Flavin to be exact. Dedications in Lights presents over 58 unique artworks spanning over three decades of the American artist's career, including 35 light works, 21 works on paper, two paintings and a selection of art that Flavin first presented at the museum in 1975. Flavin is globally recognized for his fluorescent light tube installations he first began in the 1960s. Alongside his contemporaries in Ellsworth Kelly and Donald Judd, Flavin was a pioneer in the Minimalist movement for the ways in which he explored the intersection between light, space and color. The resulting artworks are simple in concept, but hypnotic in effect, entrancing audiences from Los Angeles to T...

Originally published on Hypeart.comThe Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. has announced the acquisition of 141 photographs by 20 Chinese contemporary artists that were gifted by collector and No More Rulers founder, Larry Warsh. The lot of images previously featured in an exhibition entitled “A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China,” that recently concluded at the institution on January 7.Based in New York, Warsh is noted for owning an extensive collection of pop artworks from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, as well as for his publishing arm, which has released books on Ai Weiwei, Daniel Arsham, Judy Chicago and more. While Warsh has always shown an interest in collecting work from Chinese artists, he began to understand more about the nuances and traditions of d...

Originally published on Hypeart.comThe Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. has announced the acquisition of 141 photographs by 20 Chinese contemporary artists that were gifted by collector and No More Rulers founder, Larry Warsh. The lot of images previously featured in an exhibition entitled “A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China,” that recently concluded at the institution on January 7.Based in New York, Warsh is noted for owning an extensive collection of pop artworks from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, as well as for his publishing arm, which has released books on Ai Weiwei, Daniel Arsham, Judy Chicago and more. While Warsh has always shown an interest in collecting work from Chinese artists, he began to understand more about the nuances and traditions of d...

Chinese-born, Houston-based artist Gao Hang has released a new limited edition screen print in collaboration with Exhibition A. It's Getting Serious (2024) features a glitchy depiction of a man presumably playing basketball in a neon green top and armband. Hang's comical aesthetic is intended to conjure up the now dated video game graphics of the mid-to-late '90s, having described his practice in the past as a form of "standup comedy." View this post on InstagramA post shared by EXHIBITION A (@exhibitiona)Beneath the humorous veneer of his work, however, the artist explores digital images from the end of the 20th century as found objects, denoting the interplay in technological advancement and the raw oddity of the past with the present. "Gao views his art as a complex dialogue that, much ...

Following KAWS' successful exhibition at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario last summer, where the artist made his Canadian museum debut by bringing KAWS: Family to the city, the AGO is now launching a book to commemorate the exhibit.KAWS: FAMILY arrives as a 156-page book fully illustrated to celebrate the exhibition that occurred last summer. The book includes an essay from Julian Cox, the AGO Deputy Director and Chief Curator who curated the exhibition, as well as an interview with Jim Shedden, Curator, Special Projects and Director, Publications. The book not only includes all of KAWS' pieces exhibited at the AGO -- including the GONE (2020), FAMILY (2021) piece, a painted bronze sculpture featuring COMPANION and a a bulbous figure named CHUM and a fur-covered character named BFF, posed...

After a little over a two-year wait, Dune: Part Two has finally landed and even though many have yet to see the film, the community is already raving. While the audience score is still pending, the film already has a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes out of 207 reviews. So with the opening weekend for theaters worldwide officially kicking off tomorrow, it would be no shock if the score grows even higher. But in celebrating the sequel film, Texas-based sand animation artist Grace Zhang has her own vision of paying homage – by recreating the Dune: Part Two trailer entirely from sand.Using just two tools, her hands and sand, the animation trailer reveals the plight of the film. In the two-minute and eleven-second video, you'll see Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, Zendaya as Chani, Austin Butler as Fe...

Originally published on Hypeart.comArtworks were pulled out from the Barbican in London in protest of the cancellation of a lecture titled "The Shoah after Gaza" by Indian writer Pankaj Mishra, as per a report by The Guardian. This move sparked a response from collectors Lorenzo Legarda Leviste and Fahad Mayet, who demanded the removal of two quilts by artist Loretta Pettway from the exhibition Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art. Leviste and Mayet expressed their discontent with the Barbican's decision, labeling it as an act of censorship. They reached out to the curators of "Unravel" to provide clarification regarding the lecture's cancellation. Subsequently, Leviste and Mayet published their entire email exchange with the Barbican online after the quilts were taken down f...

Daniel Arsham, known for his unique blend of architecture, sculpture and performance artwork has unveiled his latest limited edition work. The piece, titled BRONZE ERODED ROME DEIFIED is a work based on a larger sculpture Arsham first exhibited at the KÖNIG GALERIE in Berlin, Germany in 2021.The limited edition expression of this work, limited to 99 examples, is a sculpture made of cast bronze, hand-finished in a custom Tiffany Green patina complemented by the artist's signature crystal details that are individually polished. BRONZE ERODED ROME DEIFIED stands 30 cm tall and weighs just under 5.5 kg, comes in a custom wooden crate and is accompanied by a pair of Arsham Studio art handling gloves as well as a metallic foiled certificate of authenticity that is hand-signed and numbered by the...