Art

SummaryMario Ayala’s new show at CAMH features seven actual size van paintings that use the vehicle's body as a canvasAyala's new work features seven large van paintings that act as "pseudo-portraits"The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) has inaugurated ‘Seven Vans,’ the first U.S. solo museum exhibition for Los Angeles-based artist Mario Ayala. On view from November 14, 2025, through June 21, 2026, the exhibition features seven life-size van paintings that expand the artist’s celebrated use of shaped canvases.Created specifically for the CAMH, each meticulously detailed painting depicts the rear of a van, transforming the commercial and countercultural vehicle into a "pseudo-portrait." Ayala intentionally removes the wheels and other markers of function, presenting the vans as motio...

SummarySprüth Magers Los Angeles has unveiled Horror, a new group show curated by artist Jill MulleadyRunning through February 14, the exhibition gathers work from a star-studded roster stretching across generation and place, all exploring the aesthetic and psychological power of horrorWe fear what we think we know, argues Jill Mulleady, featured artist and curator of Sprüth Magers' new group show, Horror. Staged at the gallery's Los Angeles outpost, the exhibition gathers an intergenerational lineup of names exploring the aesthetic depths of horror and the tight grasp it has on our personal and collective psychologies.“Horror takes things we inherently trust — the human form, domestic spaces, children’s toys, or the natural world — and renders them repulsive," Mulleady penned in the exhib...

SummaryNicola Samorì's Classical Collapse is a unified exhibition across the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan) and Museo Capodimonte (Naples)The show features over fifty works that confront classical tradition through excavation, rewriting and ruptureRuns from late November through early 2026 across both locationsNicola Samorì’s Classical Collapse exhibition unfolds simultaneously at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan and the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, presenting itself not as two separate shows but as a unified cultural project. Curated by Demetrio Paparoni, Alberto Rocca and Eike Schmidt, the exhibition runs from late November through early 2026, symbolically bridging Northern and Southern Italy. More than fifty of Samorì’s works are displayed in dialogue with masterpieces ...

SummaryEvan Pricco and Ozzie Juarez have teamed up to unveil Against a Bright, Blue SkyStaged at Juarez's Los Angeles art center, the show marks the American launch of The Unibrow, a new arts and culture publication by PriccoThe exhibition gathers nearly 50 artists including Lauren Halsey, Patrick Martinez, FriendsWithYou, Mario Ayala and many moreThe Unibrow, the new publication by Juxtapoz’s Evan Pricco, has touched down in Los Angeles with Against a Bright, Blue Sky, an exciting group show staged at Ozzie Juarez’s Tlaloc Studios. Co-curated by Pricco and Juarez, the exhibition gathers nearly 50 artists working across mediums, each reimagining its title, imprinted with the city they call home.“Against a Bright, Blue Sky can be read in two different ways: something beautiful and expansive...

SummaryMuseo Casa Kahlo has opened in Mexico City, transforming Frida Kahlo's lifelong family home, affectionately known as "Casa Roja," into a public museumDesigned by Rockwell Group, Pentagram, and Ileen Gallagher, the space features personal artifacts telling the "untold story of Frida's day-to-day life" outside her relationship with Diego RiveraOperated by Fundación Kahlo, the museum offers an intimate look at Frida's roles as a daughter, sister, and friend, focusing on her humanity and family legacyMexico City now hosts a powerful new cultural landmark with the opening of Museo Casa Kahlo, the dedicated family home of legendary artist Frida Kahlo, re-envisioned as a public museum. Operated by Fundación Kahlo, the space offers an intimate and comprehensive look at the artist's life awa...

SummaryThe Brant Foundation will open a major exhibition of Keith Haring works on March 11, 2026Hosted in the institution's East Village space, the showcase marks a return to the neighborhood, critical in Haring's artistic upbringingThe exhibition will center works created in the years prior to Haring's meteoric riseThis spring, New York’s Brant Foundation is turning back the clock to the East Village’s artistic heyday with a major Keith Haring exhibition opening on March 11, 2026. The eponymous showcase delves into works created during 1980-1983, breakthrough years that saw the beginning of the now-emblematic graphic lexicon of a generation. Fittingly, it will unfold in the foundation’s East Village space, not far from the subways, clubs and streets where these symbols took off.Curated by...