Art

Film innovator Polaroid is preparing to celebrate the launch of its second generation Now and Now+ instant cameras this summer. To commemorate the occasion, Polaroid has tapped 15 emerging and established photographers to take their gadgets for a spin. The creatives come from all walks of life, joining hands from across the globe to showcase their limitless creativity. Polaroid captures their daily routines across its "Real Life" campaign, allowing a glimpse into what makes living unique for everyone. The photographers were spread across four categories, seeing Ry Shorosky capture enchanting American landscapes, Rayan Nohra deliver detailed Parisian narratives, and Olof Grind explore raw emotion through nature in "Real life is color you can't control." The second group entitled its practic...

MIMA museum in Brussels is showcasing the first European institutional exhibition by rising French artist, Jean Jullien. Globally recognized for his whimsical everyday doodles, the solo show will present a survey on the artist's more recent works — from sketches and watercolor portraits to paintings, sculptures and installations. The title of the exhibition, STUDIOLO, makes reference to the idea once set forth by 14th century Italian poet Petrarch, in which people should have a place within their homes where they could converse with God and the muses. Similar to the German 'Wunderkammer' — or cabinet of curiosities, the term 'studiolo' arose in the following century as a room of introspection, decorated to reflect the values and interests of the owner.For Jullien, however, the concept of t...

Later this month, Greek club Scorpios Mykonos will present a new program called In Resonance. Billed as the largest collection of AI and generative digital artists with musicians ever assembled, the summer-long program will feature a variety of live music performances, digital art drops and installations. As the headlining act, Turkish new media artist Refik Anadol worked closely with the indigenous Yawanawa people of Brazil to create an undulating architectural model that reflects the essence of their culture and relationship with the Amazon forest. Emblematic of his career, Anadol utlizes the latest in machine learning to create a rhythmic series of patterns that are facilitated by Impact One, as part of their "Possible Futures" program, which explores the deep connections between human ...

Art meets the world of skateboarding in a new set of sculptures by artists Marcel Dzama, Sage Vaughn, Lori Damiano, and Sean Cliver. Made in collaboration between furniture brand Modernica and skateboarding mainstay Girl, the sculptures feature the latter company's signature bathroom logo crafted in wood and overlaid with each artist's imprint. Sean Cliver, whose been a longtime skateboard artist, opted to repeat a set of pop art-inspired figures with the faces skulled out. Illustrator Lori Damiano has worked for a range of clients, including Nickelodeon and Stumptown Coffee and stenciled in an actual girl silhouette, while imbuing a cosmic vibe along the negative space of the figure. Floral motifs run throughout Sage Vaughn's drippy collage-like iteration, while Marcel Dzama brings a more...

Now on view at the BC Gallery in Basel, Switzerland is a collaborative exhibition between Czech visual artist Jan Kaláb and Icelandic abstract painter, Katrin Fridriks. Entitled “The Perfect Storm,” the exhibition houses a refreshing collection of paintings that amalgamates both artists’ unique artistic qualities and vision, resulting in a body of exhilarating pieces that evoke sensory stimulations.Speaking on this collaboration, Kaláb explains that “The significant similarities and clashes of our works made us think it could be an interesting match. In the beginning, we thought we would do just one or two collaborative paintings for this show, but this turned into a creative storm, and we ended up building the whole show out with more than twenty collaborative paintings.”The creative proc...

WOAW Gallery recently launched a solo exhibition entitled "We Just Got to See Us," featuring the latest works by American artist Auudi Dorsey, held at the gallery's Wan Chai location in Hong Kong. Showcasing 11 artworks, this exhibition offers a contemporary exploration of the daily experiences of African Americans in the Southern United States. Running from June 15 to July 22, the exhibition marks Dorsey's debut solo show in Asia, bringing his unique perspective and artistic vision to a new audience.With "We Just Got to See Us," Dorsey delves into the profound resilience and enduring spirit of the Black community, capturing moments that transcend space, place, and time. Drawing inspiration from personal experiences and the vibrant black neighborhoods of the Southern region, the artist dep...

The headline-dominating art project MSCHF has had a whirlwind month, working with TOMM¥ €A$H to debut its Big Yellow Boots Crocs collaboration at Paris Fashion Week, teasing a Kid Cudi link-up, venturing into a Discord pyramid scheme, and now officially auctioning off its viral Microscopic Handbag via Sarah Andelman's Just Phriends sale on Pharrell's JOOPITER platform.MSCHF's Microscopic Handbag measures 657 by 222 by 700 micrometers, making it smaller than a grain of salt. Despite its size, the art collectible still maintains plenty of detail that's only visible under the microscope, revealing a design based on familiar high-end luxury bags. It may be microscopic, but its sale price was astronomical: it recently sold for a price of $63,750 USD at auction.Take a look (if you can) at the te...

MCA Chicago is gearing up to host the first comprehensive survey on multidisciplinary artist Gary Simmons. Originally from New York but now based in Los Angeles, Simmons, whose family comes from the West Indies, has spent the past 30 years interrogating the visual lexicon of American culture, in relations to race, class and gender identity. Public Enemy will retrace Simmons' early conceptual strategies of the late 1980s, such as his focus on sculpture, while progressing towards the wall artworks he'd come to be known for during his career. Also on view are a number of site-specific installations that have been specially made for the exhibition.Simmons often taps into pedagogical themes, readymade objects and widely accessible images to probe traditions entrenched in racism, such as Six-X (...

Cai Guo-Qiang, a globally acclaimed contemporary artist, recently presented his expansive solo exhibition titled "Ramble in the Cosmos – From Primeval Fireball Onward" at the National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT). The exhibition, jointly organized by NACT and Saint Laurent, showcases Cai's extraordinary body of work.Just before the exhibition's opening, Cai orchestrated a daytime fireworks spectacle named "When the Sky Blooms with Sakura." This commissioned event by Saint Laurent, in collaboration with the project's Executive Committee, took place above the very coast where Cai's explosive artwork, "The Horizon from the Pan-Pacific: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 14," astonished audiences three decades ago.The involvement of Saint Laurent in curating Cai Guo-Qiang's exhibition aligns with t...