Art

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:...

Popular London-based streetwear brand Stone Island has announced a multi-year global partnership with leading contemporary art fair group Frieze. Also born and bred in London, Frieze has become globally recognized for its expertise in the curation of contemporary art experiences, focused on celebrating living artists.As part of this partnership, Stone Island will act as the official partner of "Focus," Frieze's arm dedicated to emerging galleries that participate in its art fairs. The streetwear brand will offer a bursary of up to 30 percent of the stand fee for each of the participating galleries -- providing support that combined with Frieze's existing subsidies will further accelerate the growth of emerging galleries' participation in fairs."Stone Island is built on community and creati...

Pablo Picasso's 1934 oil painting, Femme à la montre, is expected to fetch around $120m USD when it hits auction this fall. Painted during the height of his iconoclastic career, Femme à la montre is inspired by Picasso's longtime muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, a French model he had an affair with from 1927 to 1935. During that period, Picasso was still married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, a Russian-Ukranian dancer. He ultimately wasn't able to keep the secret of his affair, emblematic of Walter's influence on many of his works, ultimately ending his first marriage and simultaneously coinciding with Picasso's first retrospective exhibition at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris. “Picasso’s ‘Femme à la Montre’ is a masterpiece by every measure," noted Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of Impres...

The season of art fairs is well underway, with both the Armory Show in New York and Frieze Seoul making headlines this past week. While it's several months away, Art Basel (ABMB) and Untitled have announced the exhibitor list for their upcoming events in Miami Beach.While slightly smaller than last year, the forthcoming ABMB will feature 277 galleries, including a special emphasis on artists and exhibitors from Latin America and the Caribbean diaspora, as well as a restructured layout, which will allow “improved visitor flow and seating, eating and drinking rest points," according to a statement by the organizers. First-timers will include Château Shatto from Los Angeles and Galerie Minsky from Paris — the latter of which will showcase a joint stand with San Francisco’s Weinstein Gallery, ...