Art
Ink, Paper, Power: Inside STPI’s Inaugural ‘The Print Show & Symposium Singapore’
In the midst of Singapore Art Week (SAW) 2026's champagnes and canvases, the inaugural The Print Show & Symposium Singapore reminded us of a power player that not only serves as a collectible medium, but as a primary for conceptual innovation. Organized by STPI — a cornerstone of the region’s national Visual Arts Cluster — as a core anchor of SAW the event transformed Robertson Quay into a sanctuary of high-concept ink and paper and offered a sophisticated dual experience: a curated exhibition of global icons and a rigorous intellectual deep-dive into the "politics" of the medium. Spanning from 22 January to 7 February, the showcase turned a spotlight on the "expanded field" of print, proving that in a world of digital saturation, the physical impress of ink on paper remains majestic.T...
AI Weiwei’s Next Act Is a 30-Ton Button Installation
SummaryRenowned artist Ai Weiwei turns his 30-ton button collection into eight massive flags for Button Up!, a new exhibition in ManchesterOpening this summer, the show features “Eight-Nation Alliance Flags,” a new body of textiles, alongside a 2D version of “History of Bombs,” composed of 3.5 million Lego bricksIn 2019, Ai Weiwei bought out the entire stock of A Brown and Co Buttons, a defunct South London textile factory, leaving many to wonder: what was the artist planning to do with 30 tons of buttons? After the standout “F.U.C.K.” installation at Lisson in 2024, Ai’s fascination with the everyday object continues to unravel, and is set to take center stage in the forthcoming, aptly-titled Button Up! exhibition at Manchester’s Factory International come July 2.The ex-warehouse venue wi...
Tino Sehgal Walks the Line Between Art and Life in Guadalajara
SummaryTino Sehgal opens his first solo exhibition in Mexico at the Museo de Arte de ZapopanThe exhibition features several live works, including the seminal “Kiss,” “Yet Untitled” and “These Associations,” a new work created for the venueTino Sehgal’s works are famously undocumented, save for the odd stray snapshot here and there. While based in sculpture, the Berlin-based artist has built a reputation around what he terms "constructed situations": fleeting encounters shared between visitors and performers; things to be experienced more than witnessed. You just have to be there.Sehgal has landed in Guadalajara for his first-ever solo show Mexico. Staged at the new Estación MAZ at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan, the eponymous exhibition gives the floor to these ephemeral exchanges in warm-bl...
‘Teching Hsieh: Lifeworks’ Traces 21 Years of Endurance
SummaryDia Beacon presents Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, the first full retrospective of his durational performancesHighlights include "Cage Piece," "Time Clock Piece," "Outdoor Piece" and "Rope Piece," alongside the monumental "Thirteen Year Plan"Currently on view at Dia Beacon is Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, the first comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the Taiwanese American artist’s radical durational performances. Enacted over a 21-year period, Hsieh’s oeuvre consists of five iconic One Year Performances followed by his monumental “Thirteen Year Plan,” all of which collapsed the traditional boundaries between art and life. This long-term view marks a significant milestone as it brings together all five year-long works for the first time, including "Rope Piece" and ...
Dawn Ng Blooms at Singapore Repertory Theatre With ‘The Earth Laughs in Flowers’ Exhibition
SummaryDawn Ng’s solo exhibition, The Earth Laughs in Flowers, features 12 large-scale paintings at the Singapore Repertory TheatreWorks act as "time capsules" created using frozen pigments, sand and iceThe immersive show runs until February 1, 2026Singaporean artist Dawn Ng returns to her home country for a significant solo exhibition titled The Earth Laughs in Flowers, hosted at the Singapore Repertory Theatre. Representing a major homecoming after international presentations in cities like New York, London and Seoul, this showcase marks the first time an art exhibition has been held within the theatre’s dramatic black-box space.Presented by Sullivan+Strumpf, the exhibition is an evolution of Ng’s ongoing body of work, Into Air, which explores the intersection of time, color, and emotion...
Perrotin LA To Host Takashi Murakami’s Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis’
SummaryTakashi Murakami’s Hark Back to Ukiyo-e exhibition opens at Perrotin Los Angeles on February 14, 2026Featuring 24 new works, the show highlights large-scale reinterpretations of Utamaro and Kiyonaga’s bijinga, alongside Monet-inspired piecesPerrotin Los Angeles is set to present Takashi Murakami’s latest solo exhibition, Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis on February 14, 2026.Featuring 24 new paintings, the exhibition explores the historical dialogue between Japanese ukiyo-e prints and European Impressionism, particularly the influence of bijinga - pictures of beautiful women - on artists such as Monet. Inspired by a recent visit to Monet’s Giverny, Murakami advances his Superflat theory by tracing how Edo-period compositions, costumes, and sensual gestur...
Jana Frost on Building Worlds Through Collage
Jana Frost builds immersive, symbolic worlds through collage, animation and set design, moving between physical and digital space. Now based in London after years of relocating, her practice reflects that sense of movement and impermanence. She studied fine art at Tallinn University in Estonia, but her education has remained ongoing, shaped by continued research into symbolism, philosophy and psychology, which inform the layered visual narratives running through her work.Originally trained in ceramics and sculpture, Frost gradually shifted away from material-heavy processes as frequent moving made traditional studio practice difficult to sustain. Collage emerged as both a practical solution and a conceptual fit. Principles central to sculpture such as composition, balance and storytelling ...
A Tour Through ‘Korean Treasures’ With Audrey Nuna
After hallyu hit the global stage, South Korea’s creative imprint is ever-present. From the boom of Korean cinema and K-pop to the Gwangju Biennale if you lean more art connoisseur, the so-called soft powerhouse has proven a finesse on all cultural fronts. At the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, a new exhibition is turning back the clock to chart the artistic evolution that made this moment possible.Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared marks the first major of US exhibition of works hailing from the renowned collection of Lee Kun-Hee, the 23,000-piece strong trove assembled by the late Samsung chairman over seven decades. With over 200 works, including 14 designated National Treasures, on view, the showcase offers a rare look into one of Asia's most significant private...
JOOPITER Curates “The Contemporary Take” Featuring 25 Rare Andy Warhol Prints
SummaryJOOPITER, Pharrell Williams’ auction house, has launched "The Contemporary Take: Andy Warhol Prints," a curated sale focusing on the artist's revolutionary approach to color serialization and high-edition printmakingKey highlights include the Sunset series (originally commissioned for a Minneapolis hotel), the iconic Flowers series, and the Mick Jagger portrait, alongside the vibrant orange and pink Camouflage prints from Warhol’s final 1987 portfolioCurated by Global Head of Sale Caitlin Donovan, the auction emphasizes Warhol's enduring influence on the print market, showcasing his transition from commercial imagery to defining contemporary art through repetition and bold colorPharrell Williams’ digital auction house JOOPITER is spotlighting the master of Pop Art with its latest re...
Through the Lens: Exactitudes
If uniformity spells out the death of personal style, maybe our fear of sameness is something worth learning from. Garment by garment, we assemble ourselves in ways as intimately entwined with one another as with our own bodies. Because even when we think ‘I’m one of a kind,’ we do it in unison.This paradox sits at the center of Exactitudes, the cult photo project and fashion anthropology study by Dutch photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek. A portmanteau of “exact” and “attitude,” the project is heralded as one of the most influential photo series in contemporary fashion, and works by arranging grids of 12 portraits of participants bound by obsession, subculture or sartorial resemblance. From fur-clad Italian women, Beijing screamers, to buff leathermen in Rotterdam, ea...
Asspizza Opens an Art Show
Asspizza, born Austin Babbitt, has a reputation that precedes him. Like any name plucked from the fashion mythology of 2010s SoHo, it’s one that braces you for chaos.I sit opposite Babbitt at a West Village office in the hours leading up to his new art show, and, to my surprise, catch him in a serene state: putting finishing touches on a canvas, dousing it in loose, free-handed doodles. He bumps soft country music and hums back. Splayed across his all-new art car are thick Steve Jobs and Bruce Lee biographies he’s ready to open once the show wraps, he says.Next after his 2024 debut with Amanda Bynes, last week the artist-designer unveiled his second exhibition with Larry Warsh’s CART Department at its new space in lower Manhattan. On view through January 28, the show takes over Free Parkin...
Jacob Rochester Muses on Music as a Memory Device in ‘Input/Output’
SummaryJacob Rochester heads to Plato Gallery in New York to open Input/Ouput, his latest solo exhibitionFeaturing a suite of new and recent oil paintings, the showcase explores music as a unifier, bridging generations and genres, eras and placesPress play on your favorite song and, only a matter of measures in, you're already somewhere else — a different time or place, maybe surrounded by a sea of familiar faces. Music, and its immense, connective power, is a central for Jacob Rochester, an artist who translates the warmth and intimacy of sound into a rich, canvas-based language.The Los Angeles-based artist goes bicoastal with Input/Output, his New York solo debut. Now on view at Plato through March 7, the show brings together a family of new and recent works that trace familial ties, eve...
