Art

From Me to You, NIGO‘s personal archive sale in partnership with Pharrell's JOOPITER digital auction house saw quite the array of sought-after and unseen apparel, accessories, home goods and everything in between. The white glove auction came to a triumphant close on Friday, selling all 60 of the for-sale lots – with 80% of them selling over the expected high estimate. Final sales totaled 359% above the total low estimate, a total of $623,000 USD higher than the intended profit. From Me To You, JOOPITER's sixth auction, also reached an all-time high in terms of global participation, bringing in bidders from 15 countries. 685 total bids were cast, making for an average of 11.4 bids per lot, with the top two lots seeing 41 bids each. Standout lots include the Vintage McDonald's Hawaiian Unif...

The Marta Ortega Pérez Foundation (MOP) in Coruña, Spain will present a major exhibition on prolific German-Australian photographer, Helmut Newton. Opening tomorrow, November 18, the show will chronicle his six decade career, from his childhood to how he became a titan in the world of fashion, along with his lasting impact almost 20 years since his death. Going on view at Muelle de la Batería, a reconverted warehouse space close to the harbor, the exhibition will comprise of a selection of Newton's most striking fashion portraits, such as his Big Nudes (1980–93) — a provocative black-and-white series that featured the likes of Andy Warhol, Naomi Campbell, David Bowie, Karl Lagerfeld, and even Margaret Thatcher, amongst others. The show will also spotlight some of Newton's lesser-known work...

The Marta Ortega Pérez Foundation (MOP) in Coruña, Spain will present a major exhibition on prolific German-Australian photographer, Helmut Newton. Opening tomorrow, November 18, the show will chronicle his six decade career, from his childhood to how he became a titan in the world of fashion, along with his lasting impact almost 20 years since his death. Going on view at Muelle de la Batería, a reconverted warehouse space close to the harbor, the exhibition will comprise of a selection of Newton's most striking fashion portraits, such as his Big Nudes (1980–93) — a provocative black-and-white series that featured the likes of Andy Warhol, Naomi Campbell, David Bowie, Karl Lagerfeld, and even Margaret Thatcher, amongst others. The show will also spotlight some of Newton's lesser-known work...

Salvador Dalí's home on the shores of Spain’s Costa Brava is the subject of a new book by Apartamento. Photographed by fellow Spanish artist, Coco Capitán, Casa Dalí gives a seldom-seen look into the living quarters of one of the 20th century's greatest artists. The home is as surreal as one might imagine: quirky exterior features along the entrance, abstracted inlays that give way to taxidermy galore, and of course, a giant egg-shaped door and a literal egg sculpture on the roof — a motif that recurrently featured in Dalí's work. Bought in the 1930s, the home served as Dalí's primary residence and studio where a number of his seminal works were created, including The Persistence of Memory.The sun-kissed rays that radiate throughout each image is another point of emphasis. According to arc...

Mario Ayala has been busy in his home state. Back in summer, the Los Angeles-native, alongside Guadalupe Rosales and Rafa Esparza, created a love letter to lowrider culture up at SFMOMA. While earlier this month, he also presented several new paintings as part of a group show at CONTROL that pays tribute to LA's rich lineage of airbrushing. Running concurrent to the latter, Ayala has unveiled a new solo exhibition that harks to LA's history of craftsmanship, as well as using humor and satire to address social struggles in imaginative ways. Housed at David Kordansky Gallery, Rubber Biscuit comprises of a series of new acrylic paintings stretched on a variety of oddly-shaped canvases that are intimately autobiographical, while interrogating the absurdities and questions associated with ritua...

Mario Ayala has been busy in his home state. Back in summer, the Los Angeles-native, alongside Guadalupe Rosales and Rafa Esparza, created a love letter to lowrider culture up at SFMOMA. While earlier this month, he also presented several new paintings as part of a group show at CONTROL that pays tribute to LA's rich lineage of airbrushing. Running concurrent to the latter, Ayala has unveiled a new solo exhibition that harks to LA's history of craftsmanship, as well as using humor and satire to address social struggles in imaginative ways. Housed at David Kordansky Gallery, Rubber Biscuit comprises of a series of new acrylic paintings stretched on a variety of oddly-shaped canvases that are intimately autobiographical, while interrogating the absurdities and questions associated with ritua...

Takahiro Komuro is back with a new sculptural edition made in collaboration with Avant Arte. Cute but simultaneously creepy, the Japanese artist has created his own universe of characters that reference familiar pop cultural icons — be it Godzilla, a zombie or a giant robot — but crafted in a way to reintroduce these stories in a fresh new way. Following the Ground Dragon he released in 2022, Komuro has followed up with his own take on the legendary sphinx. Kira, which takes its name from the Japanese word ‘Kirakira’ (meaning ‘sparkling’), is cast in bronze and finished with a purple iridescent paint. Notably inspired by Greek folklore, Komuro mixes past with present by fusing the sculpture with mythological limbs, such as that of lion and eagle, with more modern signifiers like the sculpt...

Erin D. Garcia will unveil a new exhibition entitled GATES OF HEAVEN at HVW8 in Los Angeles. As his fourth solo show with the gallery, the self-taught artist presents a new body of work that oscillates between figuration and abstraction, pitting audiences into a strikingly chromatic series of paintings, that although static, feel alive. Over the course of his career, spanning KRINK-on-paper artworks to massive murals for the likes of adidas and Ace Hotels, Garcia has developed his own visual language. By deconstructing images to its constituent parts — line, color, and form — his abstracted works appear familiar and mysterious, each glance providing its own meaning. "There’s a play between ideals and imperfections," the writer Jimmy Jolliff noted on the show, "rollers, brush tips, and roug...