Art
teamLab Opens Biovortex Kyoto, Its Largest Museum in Japan
SummaryA new teamLab permanent museum, Biovortex Kyoto, has opened in JapanIt features over 50 immersive artworks, including a previously unexhibited pieceThe museum also offers educational projects and opportunities for co-creationteamLab has opened the doors to its latest permanent art museum, Universe of Existence, Universe of Perception: teamLab Biovortex Kyoto, in the Minami-ku area. As part of the Kyoto Station Southeast Area Project, this expansive new space will span over 10,000 square meters, making it the largest exhibition by the art collective in Japan.The museum will feature over 50 immersive artworks, offering a diverse and compelling experience. Among the highlights is "Massless Amorphous Sculpture," an artwork that has not been previously exhibited in Japan. This piece is b...
Almine Rech Shuts Down London Gallery After 11 Years
SummaryPowerhouse dealership Almine Rech has announced the closure of its Mayfair gallery in LondonThe latest gallery to shutter amid the market's shaky waters, the French gallerist maintains that the English capital will remain a central site of overall strategyAfter more than a decade in London, Almine Rech has officially shuttered its Mayfair outpost. First reported by The Art Newspaper, the Paris-born powerhouse confirmed that its UK arm entered voluntary liquidation in August, shortly after its final Gregor Hildebrandt solo, naming the move as a "technical step to restructure a lease that no longer aligned with [its] plans."Filings to Companies House suggest that the gallery holds a £6.3 million GBP deficit, though French gallerist, Rech herself, noted that "the gallery has no unpaid ...
Woodbury House Honors Lee Quiñones with Landmark ‘Outside is America’ Show
Summary'Outside of America' highlights Lee Quiñones' longstanding practice of using art as a form of social commentaryThe landmark exhibition will feature his iconic subway murals to his more recent work that has never been shown to the publicLondon’s Woodbury House will host a monumental exhibition centering on he influential New York City-based, Puerto Rican artist Lee Quiñones. Entitled Outside is America, the presentation will highlight Quiñones’ longstanding practice of using art as a form of social commentary to highlight socio-political issues including nuclear war, poverty, racism and classism. The exhibition will also shed light on his impactful contributions to the New York City street art movement such as his iconic subway car murals in 1974 to his developing artist years in the...
Esmaa Mohamoud Explores What Remains After Innocence in New Los Angeles Show
SummaryEsmaa Mohamoud explores the fragility of innocence and the soul in What Does Webster's Say About Soul?, now on view at Roberts Projects in Los AngelesFeaturing five new shea butter and black granite sculptures, the show hones in on themes of mortality, sacredness and the precarity of existence through the lens of Black youthAt Roberts Projects in Los Angeles, Esmaa Mohamoud probes into the injured soul. What Does Webster's Say About Soul?, titled after a line in Gil Scott-Heron's 1970 spoken word track "Comment #1", moves through questions of harm, injustice and endurance through the interiority of Black youth as they confront the theft of innocence and the precarity of their own existence.Building on a body conceptual interventions into Black visual culture — be it Cadillac low rid...
Opake and Slawn Drop ‘TABOO’ With Surprise London Pop-Up
SummaryOpake and Slawn fuse anime-inspired works with chaotic overpainting in 'TABOO'The project spans a 'Big Issue' cover, limited drops and a surprise London pop-upTwo of the UK’s most unfiltered names, Opake and Slawn, are linking up for TABOO, a project that blurs the line between what’s explicit, what’s acceptable and what gets shut down. It started on September 15 with Opake stepping in as guest editor for The Big Issue. He designed the cover and sat down with Slawn for an unfiltered conversation on labels, censorship, faith, addiction and how breaking rules can sometimes be the best way forward.The collaboration takes shape on September 25 with a release of hand-painted skate decks, original canvases and editioned prints on Slawn’s site. The centerpiece of the collaboration is a ful...
Marina Abramović Displays 1,200 Photographic Stills in Landmark Show
SummaryMarina Abramović deconstructs her famous "Blue Period" and "Red Period" video-based works as 1,200 individual photographic stillsEach still is unique and one of one, offering collectors a chance to acquire a tangible piece of her performancesIn a new exhibition at Saatchi Yates in London, renowned conceptual artist Marina Abramović is giving her work a radical new form. The landmark show reimagines two of her famous performance videos, "Blue Period" and "Red Period," by transforming them into a series of 1,200 individual photographic stills.Akin to the artist periods of Picasso and Matisse, Abramović’s pieces explore the extremes of human emotion and physical endurance in her own chapter. In "Red Period," she is seen in a close up, bathed in red light with her expression shifting be...
‘Magma No. 3’ to Launch in Paris with Bottega Veneta
SummaryThe publication gathers 25 culturally important artists, writers and filmmakersThe launch of this third edition will be marked by two major exhibitionsParis in October is already alive with Art Basel, but this year opens with the launch of Magma No. 3: Archive of the Future, a large-format, limited-edition volume backed by Bottega Veneta--whom supported the project since its inception since 2023. Hans Ulrich Obrist introduces the volume with a foreword, calling it "an extraordinary collection of artist archives that helps us invent the future," describing the project not as a set of conclusions but as raw material for action.The publication gathers 25 artists, writers and filmmakers into what its creators call a "poetic cartography of the contemporary world." Elizabeth Peyton’s int...
Opus Unveils Limited Edition Book Celebrating the Oasis Live ‘25 Reunion Tour
SummaryOpus and Oasis collaborated on a 400-page book, OASIS LIVE ’25 OPUS, celebrating their reunion tourThe book features photography by Simon Emmett, who documented the band's first live shows in 16 yearsIt will be available in multiple editions, including a strictly limited "Marquee Edition" of only 100 copiesIn a move set to thrill music fans, Opus is partnering with legendary band Oasis, along with Liam and Noel Gallagher and iconic photographer Simon Emmett, to create OASIS LIVE ’25 OPUS.This 400-page book celebrates the band’s recent reunion tour, which marked their first performances in 16 years after their split in 2009. The project provides an unprecedented look at the band's live legacy, with unique access and collaboration from both brothers.Emmett, who captured the official r...
Guillermo del Toro’s Collection Brings $1.65 Million USD at Auction
SummaryMarking the first time the Oscar-winning filmmaker has offered works from his personal archiveH.R. Giger’s painting for the unrealized project “The Tourist" set an auction recordHeritage Auctions has sold the first part of Guillermo del Toro’s famed “Bleak House” collection, raising $1.65 million USD. It is the first time the Oscar-winning filmmaker has offered works from his personal archive, which spans decades of collecting art, props and rare objects tied to his fascination with the macabre.Artworks topped the results. Bernie Wrightson’s album cover painting for Meat Loaf’s ‘Dead Ringer’ earned $167,000 USD, while his original plate for Marvel’s adaptation of ‘Frankenstein’ brought $250,000 USD. Mike Mignola’s illustration for 'Hellboy: Seed of Destruction' (1994) sold for $51,2...
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. Examines Cars as Icons of LA Life in ‘NO PARKING’
SummaryAlfonso Gonzalez Jr.’s NO PARKING at Matthew Brown Gallery uses cars and urban structures to reflect the hidden lives of LA residentsThe exhibition features sculptures, multi-panel paintings and textured worksMatthew Brown Gallery opens NO PARKING, the second solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., on view through October 29.The show presents vehicles as markers of city life. Burned vans, tagged trucks, crowded RVs and idle food trucks stand in for the people who inhabit them. Although no figures appear, the presence of workers, commuters and residents is strongly felt. Gonzalez Jr. treats each vehicle as a portrait of survival, time and memory.The exhibition begins with two large-scale sculptures that resemble makeshift "No Parking" barriers and signage. T...
Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst & Invader Unite in London for ‘Triple Trouble’
SummaryOpening October 10 and running through March 29, 2026, the show is presented in partnership with HENI and curated by Connor HirstEach artist’s signature style is reimagined in new forms across individual and collaborative worksNewport Street Gallery will host Triple Trouble, a major exhibition bringing together Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst and Invader. Opening October 10 and running through March 29, 2026, the show is presented in partnership with HENI and curated by Connor Hirst.The exhibition spans all six gallery spaces and presents both individual works and first-time collaborations. Visitors can expect a mix of painting, sculpture, installations and mosaics that blend fine art with street culture. Each artist’s signature style is reimagined in new forms: Fairey’s OBEY imagery, ...
‘Stillness in Blue – Captured Moments’ Is Jaejun Lee’s Poignant Farewell To Korean Clay
SummaryJaejun Lee's solo exhibition Stillness in Blue - Captured Moments is on view at otherthings by THE SHOPHOUSE until October 12, 2025It features his signature lake-blue glazed porcelain, including modern interpretations of Korean moon jarsotherthings by THE SHOPHOUSE is currently presenting Stillness in Blue - Captured Moments, the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by UK-based Korean ceramist Jaejun Lee. Building on his success at Art Collaboration Kyoto last year, Lee unveils a series of his signature lake-blue glazed porcelain pieces made from the same Korean clay he’s carried over 5,000 miles.Lee’s practice is defined by a delicate balance between dynamism and calm. Each work undergoes dozens of unseen stages from preparation, forming, glazing to finishing — where meticulous focus...
