Art

New artist residency and incubator Artivist, tucked away in the heart of Seoul, is the home to multidimensional artist Dustin Yellin's first-ever solo Asia exhibition. Artivist is comprised of an arts patron club, an artist residency program, as well as an exhibition space, with the ultimate spatial goal to act as a melting pot, a bridge between traditional and contemporary art. With that mission in mind, the globally celebrated Yellin's Spooky Portal exhibit is the perfect opener.“Our goal is to create a hub for artistic inspiration and collaboration,” Afrodet Zuri, Artivist’s curator in residence, conveyed in a statement.  “We believe Artivist and artists such as Dustin, will significantly contribute to the dynamic art culture in Seoul.” Amy Kim, Artivist's founder, agrees with the senti...

Naturally, the world has been wondering what a possible Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum collaboration may look like, since the two announced one of the year's most unlikely partnerships earlier this month.“This collaboration will allow the next generation to get to know Vincent van Gogh’s art and life story in a refreshing way,” said the institution's director, Emilie Gordenker, in a statement. “The Van Gogh Museum and The Pokémon Company International have drawn on many years of educational expertise to create a special experience for children, their supervisors, and we hope many others at the Van Gogh Museum.” View this post on InstagramA post shared by PM1 (@pm1.tcg)What wasn't planned, but perhaps should have been expected, was the sheer craze surrounding the exhibition's opening today. The ...

Rapper-turned-artist Jahlil Nzinga has released a new limited-edition screen print entitled gotta wear shades. Produced by acclaimed Parisian maison, Print Them All — who in the past had worked with the likes of Picasso and Matisse (amongst others) — the artwork depicts one of the Los Angeles-based artist's signature one-liner drawings wearing blue-tinted sunglasses. Having first come up as Stunnaman from the Bay Area rap group, The Pack, Nzinga has reinvented himself as a prolific artist over the past five years, creating largely gestural works that are inspired by his hip hop days, as well as his interest in fashion, early skateboarding graphics, and the canons of art history. Entirely self-taught, Nzinga found his painterly voice through the unapologetic process of one-liners, where thr...

Zhong Wei is a Chinese artist known for creating multi-layered acrylic compositions that comment on the internet vernacular native to his home country. Born and based in Beijing, Wei uses found imagery and memes as source material to imbue a snapshot of the rapidly growing matrix of our technologically-driven age. Wei's latest exhibition at DE SARTHE gallery in Hong Kong looks to spark a dialogue around the shifting power dynamics between man and machine. Entitled Weight Drifting, his visceral artworks reflect a world where humankind has lost control of the pace at which technology now dictates our lives. Like multiple processors layered within one another, Wei probes into the growing role of AI, speculating "a near future – or perhaps present – in which any trace of the human artist will ...

Louise Bonnet's latest exhibition, 30 Ghosts, is a reflection on the lives that have come before us. Opening at Gagosian this November, the works on view were notably inspired by the opening lines in Arthur C. Clarke’s sci-fi novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): “Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”Based in Los Angeles, Bonnet is well-known for painting exaggerated bodily forms that explore themes related to melancholy, nostalgia, lust, and grief. In her forthcoming solo show, she confronts the specter of death through a new series that harks to 17th century Dutch still-life paintings, making use of the vanitas symbols of fruit, flowers and sumptuous drapery with her grotesque human contortions. Emblematic of her oeu...

Renowned artist Daniel Arsham has taken to Instagram to show his support to his favorite football club, Inter Milan, with a special gift. Noting in a joint post on social media, the artist shared his deep connection with the city of Milano, having coming to the city for over 15 years for "to work with friends in design, architecture, art and fashion." In his almost two decades traveling to and from and the city, he has grown a love for the football club in the city and with that, wanted to show his appreciate with a special sculpture to represent both the team, the sport and Milano. Presenting two sculptures that resemble that of deconstructed footballs, the artist wrote on Instagram, "As a gift to the Club, I have created a sculpture representing the team colors made in crystal and volcan...

In August, Hennessy celebrated Hip-Hop's momentous 50th birthday with a special event and collaboration with Nas. The legendary rapper was invited to collaborate with the brand on a special limited edition V.S bottle. Nas's creation pays homage not only to the birthplace of hip-hop at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx but also encapsulates the shared essence of Hennessy and hip-hop.To commemorate Nas and Hip-Hop's milestone, Hennessy commissioned the talented sculptor, painter, and installation artist, Kennedy Yanko, to craft an exclusive copper sculpture, a bespoke art piece that was presented to Nas during his 50th birthday celebration in New York City. As an extension of this tribute to both Nas and the Hip-Hop movement, Hennessy produced a limited collection of 20 mini sculptures, also...

Korean-American actor and visual artist Joseph Lee unveiled a new solo exhibition of paintings at DIESEL ART GALLERY in Tokyo. As his first showing in Japan, PLEASURE IN THE PATHLESS WOODS reveals in thick brushstrokes the thoughts and emotions Lee experienced while in solitude during the COVID pandemic. Lee's own appearance has become well-known through his acting roles in Searching (2018) and Beef, but the facial depictions in his figurative paintings are purposefully left shrouded to comment on the hidden emotions that lie under the surface. As the title of the show implies, Lee takes viewers on an abstracted journey through the woods, where fear, uncertainty, and excitement are all around the corner."PLEASURE IN THE PATHLESS WOODS opens up moments where the subject’s intention may be i...

The threshold between truth and fiction has always served as the starting point for artist Thao Nguyen Phan. First trained as a painter, the Vietnamese artist is best known for creating dreamlike films and installations where folklore, literature, and philosophy are interwoven with real issues pertaining her homeland.For her latest exhibition, Phan took over Milan's Pirelli HangarBicocca to shed light on the colonization of Vietnam and the social transformations that have transpired since. Entitled Reincarnations of Shadows, the solo exhibition reexamines history through a series of new watercolors, sculptures, films, and installations, where Phan probes into the 'absolute truths' taught in school, which the artist argues omits the oral traditions found in Vietnamese history. As a response...

The end times may dominate the news cycle, but the premonition of the apocalypse is nothing new. Images of great floods, rampant fires, and incessant suffering is riddled within the pages of religious texts and the canons of art history, from Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy (1321), J.M.W. Turner's The Deluge (1805) to Nicolas Party's latest solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth.Housed at the gallery's New York location, Swamp creates a bridge between past and present, as the Swiss artist recontexualizes history in his characteristically subversive style. Upon entering, visitors will be immersed by a massive pastel mural depicting a forest fire, a prevalent scene today, where awe and angst sets up the stage for Party's latest oil-on-copper paintings dedicated to 19th-century French real...