Art

THE SKATEROOM closed out 2022 with a vinyl-inspired set of decks by German artist, Gregor Hildebrandt. While it's almost halfway into the new year, the art collective has followed from one legend to another through a new limited edition collaboration with skater and photographer, Ed Templeton.The capsule is based off of Templeton's Wires Crossed series. Created between 1995 and 2012, Templeton describes the collection as his life's work, as he chronicled the often misunderstood life of skaters — from their triumphs, injuries, relationships and emotions. "I was a drifting kid who had no aim, but then I found this thing that put me around these great people," Templeton said when first recalling his introduction to skateboarding. "The act of skateboarding is secondary to the community," he ad...

teamLab, the interdisciplinary art collective responsible for immersive multi-sensory experiences around the world, is presenting its works in a new group exhibition at the Nordic Watercolor Museum in Sweden titled "Animal Kingdom."Participating artists include German illustrator and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717, American artist James John Audubon (1785-1851), Finnish brothers Wilhelm von Wright (1810-1887) and Magnus von Wright (1805-1868), and German artist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919). During their lifetimes, the artists used their expertise in plants and wildlife to present paintings from a scientific point of view with the aim of documenting the diversity of nature in the age of discovery. Based on teamLab's concept of Ultrasubjective Space, their works will be presented ...

On the centennial of his birth, the U.S. Postal Service recognized the life and contributions of American artist Roy Lichtenstein with the dedication of new stamps in his honor at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The Forever Stamps come in panes of 20, featuring five of the artist's most iconic works.“The Postal Service uses its stamp program to raise awareness and celebrate the people who represent the very best of our nation,” said Thomas Marshall, general counsel and executive vice president of the Postal Service, who served as the stamps’ dedicating official. “Roy Lichtenstein certainly deserves this recognition because of the remarkable creativity and innovation he demonstrated throughout his career.”Known for his parody pop art, Lichtenstein left behind more than 5,000...

Javier Calleja and Case Studyo are back again with a new big-headed sculpture that will transform your plant game. As a follow-up to their popular POT POP TOP edition from the past few years, the Spanish artist has gone bigger and bolder than ever in a new edition dubbed THE BIG TOP POT.Unlike the past iteration, which favored an all-white surface, the latest work returns to color as Calleja's characters feature large green and blue eyes, with red and orange hair to match. "Seeing nature sprout from the characters’ heads is a deceivingly simple metaphor for the beauty and unbridled creativity of a child’s mind," wrote a release by Case Studyo. "Calleja’s figures represent a disarming innocence and overwhelming purity that is a welcome sight for sore eyes in today’s complex society."THE BIG...

Husband and wife duo, Darren and Trisha Inouye, better known by their artist alias, Giorgiko, have unveiled a new solo exhibition at WOAW Gallery in Hong Kong. Based in Los Angeles, the Inouye's practice can be defined by cartoonish figures that operate in a rugged and mysterious world. As Giorgiko, Trisha fuses her tenderness with Darren's street influence to create compositions that explore the complexity of the human experience. Presented in collaboration with Thinkspace Projects, The Seed of Peace showcases 25 new oil paintings centered around the theme of resurrection. At the core of the show is a seed that blossoms into a white olive tree that provides peace and shelter for the depicted children in Giorgiko's paintings. According to a press release by the gallery, the seed is used as...

2022 was filled with incidents in which activists began targeting high-profile artworks to raise awareness to climate change. Largely confined to Europe, the protests have come to the U.S., where yesterday at 11am ET, two Americans dressed in black suits smeared red and black paint across the case protecting Edgar Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1879–1881) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.The two protestors, Tim Martin from Raleigh, North Carolina, and Joanna Smith from Brooklyn, represent the climate group, Declare Emergency. In footage first shared by The Washington Post, Smith voiced his concern to U.S. president Joe Biden, stating, “We need our leaders to take serious action, to tell us the truth about what’s happening with the climate."Protesters smeared paint on ...

In a week's time, Steven Harrington is set to release his largest sculptural edition to date. Normally reserved to smaller pieces and vinyl figures that measure roughly a foot in height, the acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist will cast his signature Mello dog in five feet of fiberglass reinforced polymer.While larger sculptures have been a constant throughout the last ten years of his career, museums and solo exhibitions have been the only way for visitors to experience them. "I've always wanted the public to experience and have access to the life sized version my altar ego, Mello. I feel very fortunate to finally be able to offer this to my audience for the first time," the artist told Hypeart. The latest entry in the Mello line measures 5 feet tall x 2 feet wide x 1 feet 10 inches deep. ...

Dozie Kanu has teamed up with Byredo to create an installation that brings the brand's Bal d’Afrique fragrance to life. On show during Milan Design Week at Spazio Maiocchi, the installation pairs a gallery of archival photography alongside a large-scale architectural structure. Visitors enter the space via a corridor. Here, a glass vitrine displays photographs from the Saman Archive - a project initiated by Adjoa Armah, which collects images taken in Ghana across different decades. For Kanu, representing the past through his work is crucial, in terms of creating a connection. As such, by showing the audience these images before inviting them into the installation itself, he looks to convey a sense of shared perspective. "It feels more authentic for me to try and see the continent through t...

Like the roar of a tenor saxophone gliding over the rhythm, improvisation was a key technique for Jean-Michel Basquiat. Understandably so, as his affinity for jazz is well documented. Even before amassing an impressive record collection himself, the young artist would draw on the floor as his father would play the trumpet. Bebop, in particular, would become a lifelong interest for Basquiat, especially the virtuosic music of Charlie Parker.Basquiat's homage to Jazz, Now’s the Time (1985), will be the centerpiece of Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Auction next month. Named after Parker's 1945 record of the same name, the painting has been in the collection of publisher and film producer, Peter Brant, and is expected to fetch roughly $30m USD.“In [Now’s the Time], we witness Basquiat radically...

For Inès Longevial, the body is a canvas for her to paint what she feels. Sometimes these self-depictions takes on a languid palette, such as a slate blue mixed with chartreuse and deep purple; whereas, as it often does in the sunnier months, Longevial opts for sun-kissed colors to hint at a sense of play and excitement. The French artist landed somewhere in between these two polarities in her latest print entitled Elphaba. Perhaps named after the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, Longevial's self-portrait exudes a calm, yet mysterious figure, whose colors reflect the changing of the seasons. Originally made in colored pencil, the sketch is dominated by pastel colors, from pink and magenta to lilac and robins egg blue. Made in collaboration with the centuries old wine producer,...

The Sony World Photography Awards launched 16 years ago as a way to champion work from all ages and backgrounds. Fast forward to the present, little did the organization know that it would (mistakingly) crown an image created by artificial intelligence. That's what happened at this year's coronation, as German photographer Boris Eldagsen refused to accept the award for the Creative category.His photograph, entitled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician, was created using OpenAI's DALL-E 2 image generator and alludes to a 1940s family photo, where two women from different generations lie front and center. Call it photography or 'promptograhpy' as Eldagsen dubbed it, the work was purposefully submitted to "drive debate" about how this technology is currently redefining our understanding of photograp...