Art

The legal challenges surrounding artificial intelligence have become just as much a topic of discourse as the creative potential offered to would-be users. Amidst the frenzy, Getty Images assures potential customers and creatives alike, that it's new AI image generator doesn't source material without consent. Powered by NVIDIA Picasso's Edify model architecture, Generative AI by Getty Images is trained solely on the media giant's vast library, "allowing customers to elevate their entire end‑to‑end creative process to find the right visual content for any need," according to a release. The tool won't use any images of real people or locations, making it — as the corporation has marketed it — a "Commercially safe. Impactful. Worry‑free," solution for indulging in the power of AI. “We’ve list...

Paris' Galerie Kreo is letting us into the edgeless, immersive world of Virgil Abloh. The Paris gallery opened the doors to "Virgil Abloh: Echosystems" earlier this week: an expansive collection of Abloh's most recent pieces, alongside an array of work from the visual polymath's key creative inspirations including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.Abloh's diverse range of work bridged gaps between communities and blurred the boundaries of genre, and in the Hugo Vitrani-curated exhibit, the fluidity of Abloh's creations exists at the forefront. Vitrani tapped into Abloh's origin story to compile a cohesive yet provocative array of art from the artist himself which includes: the "WORLD LEADERS" ladder, "TOWER HILLS" chair in embossed bronze and "MIDWAY VILLAGE" bench.In the exhibition's ...

After tapping J.30000 for the "It’s a Dog’s World" exhibition, standout Hong Kong eclectic select shop and vintage purveyor ASTERISK has now returned with its latest art exploration. Reimagining its BELOWGROUND shop space, ASTERISK has invited Japanese artist CFS to share his interactions between art and skate culture.Known for his work inspired by surf and skate culture, CFS’s signature artworks feature hand-carved graphics on wood by with varnish finishing the chisel designs.Titled "SUPER STARS BY CFS," the new exhibition at ASTERISK celebrates icons from different decades. Highlighting their varied impacts and influences in the store and around the world. The skateboard-focused collection of work features the figures with a process that will darken and change color over time, bringing e...

Photographer and Philadelphia native Quil Lemons has cut the ribbon on his first solo exhibition, titled Quiladelphia. The showcase, which is currently on view at the Hannah Traore Gallery in New York City's Lower East Side neighborhood, offers a "deeper retrospective of representations of the Black male form" through intimate imagery that looks to dissect the queer psyche.“I wanted to welcome folks into what it is to live life as a Black gay man," said Lemons. "I let my camera navigate everything I see. When it came to shooting, I was letting people into my brain. It was not to make Black nudity and sex into art. Everything I embody is what these images are and mean to me. This is ME. Welcome to my brain."The photographs, which were captured on film with a variety of cameras, are meant to...

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo announced that the city will recycle materials used in Christo and Jeanne-Claude's L’Arc de Triomphe Wrapped (1961-2021) for the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games next summer. The initiative is in collaboration with Parley for the Oceans, who will repurpose the roughly 269,098 square feet of aluminum-coated blue polypropylene fabric and 9,843 feet of red rope needed to create the colossal piece for “shade structures, tents or barnums," according to Hidalgo. “This is a very fine example of the art world’s ability to adapt to climate challenges,” she added.Christo and Jeanne-Claude's artwork was often created with the intention for reuse. The Floating Piers (2014-2016) structure they created over Lake Iseo in Italy, was eventually recycled by German company Al-tex, who rep...

A stolen Vincent Van Gogh painting has finally been returned to its rightful home, thanks to world-renowned art detective, Arthur Brand. Known in some circles as the "Indiana Jones of the art world," the Dutch historian and sleuth has recovered over 200 notable works over his career and had been in negotiations with several unnamed parties connected to the looted painting, The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring (1884), which is estimated to be worth up to $6.4m USD.How was it returned? In a humble IKEA bag at Brand's Amsterdam apartment. The painting was first stolen overnight on March 30, 2020, coincidentally Van Gogh's birthday, from the Singer Laren museum in The Netherlands. Originally on loan from the Groninger Museum, the work had swapped multiple hands in the criminal underworld o...

French artist Inès Longevial is set to unveil a new solo exhibition, along with her first internationally published monograph via Rizzoli. Housed at Ketabi Bourdet, Perchée is notably inspired by Italian writer Italo Calvino's 1959 novel, The Perched Baron. In the fictional tale, a young boy rebels against eating snail soup and climbs up a tree to live with an arboreal society for the rest of his life. "From the primitive human who was at one with nature, what are we to make of the artificial man and woman who are now at one with situations and products?" asks Longevial. While she admittedly doesn't necessarily have the answers to this philosophic question, the rising French painter used her latest exhibition to tinker with the light and shadow cast by branches and leaves, "in a range of c...

Bob Ross fans will now have a chance to own the artist's first-ever on-air TV painting for just under $10 million USD. The painting, which he completed in the first episode of his landmark television show, The Joy of Painting, has officially come to the market. Titled, A Walk in the Woods (1983), Art News has reported that Minneapolis, Minnesota-based gallery Modern Artifact is selling the canvas for a price of $9.85 million USD. With the pure belief that some memories are just priceless, the gallery is hoping that fans will share the same notion when they understand the price of the painting. Knowing that the price is outlandish, the gallery says it will still be entertaining offers, though "they would prefer to share it with a museum or traveling exhibit to allow as many people as possib...

Later this month, Koji Yamaguchi will be presenting his latest solo exhibition at On Sundays’ LightSeed Gallery in Tokyo.The Japanese artist is known for his dreamscape-like paintings and style that stems from his penchant for skateboarding. In Yamaguchi’s artwork, mundane landscapes and cityscapes are imbued with a touch of impressionism through the use of flowing forms and blurred-out finishes.“Surface” will include a body of new oil paintings on linen. The style remains in line with Yamaguchi’s usual approach, but many of which are created on large canvases that stretch as wide as 436.5 cm x 227.3mm.Preview some of the featured artwork above.Koji Yamaguchi’s “Surface” exhibition will be on view from September 26 to November 5, 2023. For more updates, head over to On Sunday’s official we...

It's no secret that Eike König loves The Simpsons. Apart from being the founder of acclaimed studio, HORT, the German artist and designer recurrently explores some of the cartoons legendary cast, by humorously juxtaposing them with figures such as ancient Greek poet, Homer, and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The latter artwork served as the inspiration for König's latest screen print. Aptly titled LISA VS. LISA, the top half of the print features Lisa Simpson's angular noggin, while the bottom gives way to Mona Lisa — both of which are created in a halftone effect. As an edition of 50, plus 15 artist proofs, LISA VS LISA sizes at 28 x39 inches and is a hand-pulled on 310qsm mould made satin Somerset 100% cotton paper. For those looking to purchase, the work comes signed and numbered by the...

kurimanzutto just launched the first-ever solo exhibition by Mexican artist and designer Barbara Sánchez-Kane in New York, titled New Lexicons for Embodiment. In this exhibit, Sánchez-Kane explores the intersection of fashion and art, focusing on how clothing shapes our identity and self-expression.Sánchez-Kane, who goes by she and he pronouns, deconstructs and reimagines traditional identities through her clothing and sculptures. The exhibit features her latest fashion collection in a pop-up shop at the gallery's entrance, offering a glimpse into her creative journey. The main exhibit showcases sculptures inspired by a 1920s design guide, turning them into abstract, fabric-based landscapes that challenge our perceptions."Mutant clothes as an act of resistance against evolutionary biology:...