Art

A rediscovered Rembrandt painting has fetched £10.9m GBP ($13.7m USD) when it hit Sotheby's auction in London on December 6. Entitled The Adoration of The Kings (1628), the artwork first emerged in the 1950s but disappeared from public knowledge until 2021, when it sold via Christie's in Amsterdam. The sale two years ago was initially attributed as a work created by the students of the artist, sometimes referred to as the "Circle of Rembrandt", resulting in a pre-auction valuation of around $10,000 to $15,000 USD.The largely monochromatic painting depicts the biblical account of The Three Wise Men as they encounter baby Jesus. While small in scale, just about 9.6 x 7.2 inches, the work is "particularly significant", according to a Sotheby's spokesman in an interview with CNN, noting that i...

Los Angeles-based artist Steven Harrington will unveil his first museum solo exhibition at Seoul's Amorepacific Museum of Art (APMA) in March 2024. The museum was originally established in 1979 as a space to exhibit the collection of its founder, Seo Seong-hwan, but was later expanded to include works from antiquity, as well as Korean artists and contemporary figures, such as the ongoing show on the late American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Steven Harrington (@s_harrington)Known globally for his psychedelic pop aesthetic, Harrington's sensibilities have certainly evolved over the past 15 years, including more introspective paintings that comment on pertinent issues, such as the climate crisis, as well as the creation of his canine alter e...

Chen Ke has released a new limited edition screenprint in collaboration with Perrotin. The artwork follows her ongoing solo exhibition, Bauhaus Gal – Theatre, currently on view at the gallery's Paris location. The show takes its inspiration from a photograph the Beijing-based artist observed of a group of girls studying at the Bauhaus school in Germany. "They lived 100 years ago, but they're not so different from women nowadays," noted Ke in a past interview. "They might be more avant-garde and courageous." Despite commonly being associated as one of the most radical and free-thinking art schools over the past 100 years, the Bauhaus still played into social norms of the day by limiting the type of programs women could study, resulting in visionary figures, such as Anni Albers pursuing text...

The 2023 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach is in the books and it didn’t quite match the same expectations set up over the past few years. Namely, there wasn’t ‘that’ viral moment that everyone has come to expect with the fair. Think Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous banana installation.Tucked away at the UBS Collectors Lounge, however, BMW worked closely with Los Angeles-based artist Alex Israel to reveal a unique installation that carried the same level of excitement — and not to mention, invasiveness — of a viral artwork, such as MSCHF’s ATM Leaderboard last year, but done so in a way that was less of a peanut gallery and instead emphasized the actual experience of the visitor.Entitled REMEMBR, the collaboration invited participants to download an app which utilizes AI to analyze one’s camera...

Egyptian artist Ghada Amer has recontextualized the QR code in a new solo exhibition at London's Goodman Gallery. Born in Cairo and now based in New York City, Amer is typically known for creating striking mixed-media artwork that centers the female body as a "battleground" to explore themes pertaining identity, sexuality and Islamic culture. In QR CODES REVISITED, however, she tapped into the ubiquity of what has now become a common form of language to meditate on how we universally communicate across cultures in the present. Mapped across the gallery space are a series of new woven tapestries that appear like mazes made of patchwork lettering in both English and Arabic. Hidden beneath each geometric layer are messages of prominent feminist voices from Eastern and Western activists — such...

Known for his multi-colored contemporary art and signature smiley flower designs, Takashi Murakami is one of the most celebrated Japanese artists of the 21st century. In continuing his legacy, the artist has now announced a forthcoming exhibition entitled, “Takashi Murakami Mononoke Kyoto.”Taking place at the KYOCERA Museum of Art in Kyoto City, the large-scale exhibition will chronicle the extent of Murakami's work – also celebrating the museum's 90th anniversary. For the announcement, an introductory press conference was held at the Gion Kobu Kaburenjo where Murakami offered a look at what's to come from the exhibition and why he focused on Kyoto for it.Aside from the conference, an iwai-maku (celebration curtain) celebrating the name succession of Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro XIII, who...

Want to win $1m USD? Australian artist CJ Hendry has a simple proposition for you: drain 34 consecutive shots in her new basketball HOOP sculpture and you can win one of her large-scale drawings and the big money prize. Made in conjunction with the City of Miami and the return of Art Basel Miami Beach, which officially opens to the public today, Hendry's latest project features a 20-foot-tall cobalt blue tree with 34 hoops that are made to mimic a chandelier. Located just by the water in the Wynwood District, the artwork was a refreshing change of pace to Hendry's drawing practice and temporary exhibitions. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Cj Hendry (@cj_hendry) View this post on InstagramA post shared by Cj Hendry (@cj_hendry)"This HOOPS concept is my first foray into a perman...

A year on from their collaborative chair sculpture, French artist Jean Jullien and Case Studyo are back with another (functional) edition called La Baleine (The Whale). Playing in line with his whimsical two-dimensional illustrations, the porcelain artwork features a cheerful blue whale with a scribbly hand-drawn vibe with an open blow-hole that can hold pens, colored pencils, flowers or whatever else that comes to mind. For Jullien, who frequently paints animals and scenes associated to the beach, the whale represents a symbol of grace, grandeur and unbounded creativity. The hybrid sculpture was made to play on the metaphor of a whale's blowhole, "an emblem of exhaling and releasing creative energy", according to Case Studyo, where he invites his collectors to fill the whale with their ow...

Art Basel Miami Beach is back for its 21st edition in what appears to be a not as sunny South Beach this year. Apart from the weather, which is actually fine (relative to rest of the country), the mega fair presents 277 galleries from 39 countries and a seemingly infinite amount of events and fairs orbiting the city — from NADA to Untitled to Scope. Two decades on and the fair's Miami Beach edition has unofficially become the key week within art and design calendars to showcase both the best the creative world has to offer, as well as a gathering point for brand activations, micro influencers seeking to escape the cold and all the debauchery in between. Housed at the Miami Beach Convention Center, the 2023 edition will be mapped out across seven sections. The main area, Galleries, consists...

Amsterdam-born, Paris-based artist and typographer Pieter Ceizer has readied a swath of new work for Art Miami: a wood sculpture dubbed No Tears and a quartet of steel paintings-slash-structures. The latest addition to Ceizer's ongoing Woody sculpture series after previous Amour and Good Vibes releases, No Tears is equal parts playful and poignant, while the metal artworks show Ceizer's unique blend of typography and industrial practices.Crafted by hand at Ceizer's Paris atelier, No Tears is a nine-inch-tall wood figure painted either peach orange or strawberry red and screen printed with a teardrop pattern and script and contour line detailing. Each is limited to 15 units, signed and numbered on the bottom of its feet, and packaged in a wooden box.Meanwhile, the four metal artworks are ti...