Art

Bellini Nautica's prestigious headquarters hosted an exclusive evening event to unveil a remarkable creation—a reimagined Riva Aquarama merging art and design. The French artist's distinctive style infused the luxury wooden runabout with a captivating interplay of lights and shadows, creating a serene atmosphere. Using millions of meticulously arranged dots, the artist achieved a sense of balance and harmony. Bellini Nautica, renowned for restoring vintage Riva boats and selling yachts, collaborated with globally acclaimed artist Xavier Casalta. Casalta's talent in illustration, typography, and architecture, along with his fascination for antiquity, resulted in a diverse body of work. His stippling technique, involving millions of ink dots, required immense precision and over 2,500 hours f...

NKSIN, real name Shin Nakagawa, is a Filipino-Japanese artist who creates largely monotone figurative busts of various characters — some resembling pop cultural figures, others entirely featureless. Created using airbrush on canvas, much of his work is aesthetically inspired by '90s animation as he seeks to address societal issues in a humorous way.For his latest solo exhibition, NKSIN is showcasing a new body of work entitled REVIVAL at albertz benda gallery in Los Angeles. Growing up in-between Japan and the Philippines, his artwork is deeply informed by his biracial identity and the social inequity and discrimination experienced along the way. Entirely self-taught, NKSIN distills human emotions into sardonic portraits that act as a respite to the information overload ever-present today....

Ben Sanders is a Los Angeles-based artist best known for creating surreal compositions that float in between figuration and abstraction. Much of his pictorial references stem from the images he observed growing up, from Hollywood set props, Chinese hard candy, motorized tools, Taiwanese apple soda — ad infimum. Marta gallery in Los Angeles is featuring the latest solo exhibition by American pop artist, entitled New Cap.Standout pieces in the show include Sander's decade-long bottle cap series, in which he creates exaggerated compositions made of vibrant enameled steel works that probe into everyday visual lexicon. Aesthetically, each bottle cap shifts from kaleidoscopic depictions of flowers and astrological signs to sci-fi renditions of biological figures and the endless visuals that ofte...

The Brant Foundation is playing host to a massive new exhibition of over 100 artworks by Andy Warhol at its East Village location in New York. Entitled Thirty Are Better Than One, the show is curated by the gallery's founder, Peter M. Brant, who was a friend and early patron of the artist, and covers each period in Warhol's prolific career. The show is named after Warhol's famous reinterpretation of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, in which he screen-printed 30 black-and-white images of the painting onto a canvas. Created in 1963, shortly after Warhol's early stint as a commercial artist, the artwork would come to anticipate the many silkscreen reproductions he would be known for, as he showcased an "acute interest in mechanical repetition, the excess of images, and the disruption of art wo...

More than just a form of expression, art represents hope for many communities around the world. But unlike some "fuzzy feeling", wrote prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba, hope requires work. "You have to actually put in energy, time, and you have to be clear-eyed. And you have to hold fast to a vision." The Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Arts (CIRCA) was founded upon this premise back in 2020, a year in which the world was desperate for hope. Each year since, the organization has held an annual arts prize for established and emerging creatives from around the world who showcase work that inspires change.The 2023 CIRCA PRIZE calls out to artists of all backgrounds to submit work that they believe represents hope and responds to the platform's 20:23 manifesto, Hope: The Art of Read...

Womxn in Windows is a platform with the mission to spread the ideas of underrepresented womxn (cis, trans and non-binary inclusive) through moving image. The organization was founded in 2019 by curator Zehra Ahmed as a way to showcase womxn-made art films in window storefronts, but has since developed into a larger platform that has fielded performances and installations across the U.S., including Times Square. This Saturday, June 24, at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, the organization will showcase American Gurl — an ongoing curatorial project featuring work that explores all shades of American Dreaming. Co-curated by Ahmed and American signer Kilo Kish, the exhibition will explore themes related to Kish's musical of the same name, while spotlighting the nuances of the Black feminine e...

After breaking the internet with its various parody footwear options, including the ridiculous Big Red Boots, MSCHF now has its sights set on the bags industry with a Microscopic Handbag modeled after Louis Vuitton's OnTheGo tote.Measuring 657 by 222 by 700 micrometers, the semi-translucent handbag is smaller than a grain of sea salt. According to MSCHF's chief creative officer Kevin Wiesner, the micro bag was conceptualized as a commentary on shrinking luxury handbags. What was once something that should be as functional as possible has become a flashy accessory in which usefulness is seen as secondary.The OnTheGo silhouette was chosen for its simple rectangle shape and prominent logo, meanwhile, its slight translucence is so the bag is more visible when put under the backlight of a micro...

Andy Warhol is a talent beyond pop art, often picking up his 35mm Minox camera to capture photographs of his daily surroundings, fascinations, and moments. Ever an opportunist, having a camera in hand enabled Warhol to capture now-iconic imagery, of which more than 40 are now on display at the Voyages avec Warhol exhibition, presented by Château La Coste in collaboration with Hedges Projects.Curated from the James R. Hedges, IV Collection, the collection includes imagery spotlighting dear friends of Warhol's, like Halston, Dolly Parton, and Keith Haring. Likewise, we find lesser-known examples in the artist's oeuvre, showcasing the interiors of cars he may have found or traveled in, airplanes, hotel lobby chandeliers and seedy toilets, as well as many examples from Warhol's "Sex Parts and ...

Romanian artist Saul Steinberg and the renowned modernist designers Charles and Ray Eames were a natural creative blend so much so that their encounters resulted in a digital exhibition of works created during and after the time of their friendship. Together with Steinberg's wife Hedda Sterne, the group collaborated on various works from photographs to reimagined Eames chairs.After moving to Los Angeles, Steinberg and Sterne began engaging with the Eameses which sparked experimental efforts such as photographs taken at the notable Case Study House No. 8 built in Pacific Palisades. Projecting a few of Steinberg's drawings of women onto Ray and Hedda, the photographs portrayed a quirky and fun reality. They created movies about drawings and Los Angeles while turning eucalyptus leaves into bi...

Steven Harrington recently went big by releasing his largest sculptural edition of his signature Mello character. As a fitting contrast, the Los Angeles-based artist is sizing down through a new partnership with Medicom Toy and Japanese streetwear mainstay BAPE on a series of new BE@RBRICK's. The figurines are available in both a 400% and 1000% size, featuring Harrington's unique spin on the iconic BAPE camo pattern in three different iterations. Additional highlights include the artist's Mello and palm tree motifs spread throughout, along with his signature to complement BAPE's logo on the toy's back. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Steven Harrington (@s_harrington)For those looking to purchase, the BAPE X Steven Harrington BE@RBRICK will release this Saturday, June 17 at the ...