Art

Since its founding in 2013, AISHONANZUKA has served as a hub within Hong Kong to experience art from prominent and emerging Japanese artists. Made in collaboration between Japanese galleries Aisho Miura Arts and NANZUKA, the two sides have announced a new arts destination within the city called the Landmark.For its first show, the burgeoning space will bring together an eclectic list of Japanese artists, including Hajime Sorayama, Harumi Yamaguchi, and Keiichi Tanaami, as well as international figures, such as Kenny Scharf and Hebru Brantley. Entitled The Summer, the show is as much a celebration of the new gallery, as it is about the carefree nature of the summer months. From painting to digital renderings, each artist adds their own interpretative spin on what summer means. Highlights in...

Nature inFocus is a three-day Indian festival that looks to gather all the nation's premier wildlife photographers, filmmakers and conservationists under one roof. The organization recently announced the winners of its annual photography awards, and as has come to be expected with the competition, the results are extraordinary.Spanning the fields of wildlife and animal behavior to conservation and creative photography, each image spotlights a raw and unapologetic look at the laws of nature, emphasizing the constant tussle between life and death. More than just a spotlight on wildlife, many of the photographs seek to bridge the gap between the animal kingdom and that of humanity, such as in Christian Ziegler's portrait of a bonobo ape. Considered as one of our closest living relatives, Zieg...

Last year, Nigerian singer and Banku music pioneer Mr Eazi announced that he would be collaborating with 13 artists across Africa to pair bespoke work with each track off his first studio album. Slated to release later this year, the musician has revealed that he will also showcase each artwork as part of new group exhibitions that will take place in Lagos, Accra, New York and London.Eazi has become a meteoric figure in the world of music since his Afrobeat banger "Skintight" debuted back in 2016. From collaborative tunes with Bad Bunny and Beyoncé, Eazi dedicated the past two years to perfecting his craft, recording tracks across the world in global hotspots, such as Benin, Rwanda, Accra, Lagos, London, Los Angeles and New York. In anticipation of the upcoming show, Eazi worked with Camer...

Just like the music itself, event production has come a long way over the past century. Instead of empty or largely simple stage sets, massive LED monitors projecting often dizzying animations have become commonplace for a range of different genres in the past 15 years. For Kendrick Lamar, however, the acclaimed Los Angeles-based rapper chose to keep things simple on his recent performances, such as this past Friday at Lollapalooza in Chicago.The Pulitzer Prize and 16-time Grammy Award winner was seen performing hits off his latest album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, in front of a large fabric featuring reproductions of Henry Taylor’s paintings Fatty (2006) and Sweet (2012). “We wanted a kind of show that didn’t depend on LED walls or anything like that—just backdrops revealing thems...

Jun Takahashi, the celebrated Japanese designer behind the fashion label UNDERCOVER, has announced his first-ever solo exhibition will go live via Tokyo-based GALLERY TARGET.The exhibition, titled "THEY CAN SEE MORE THAN YOU CAN SEE," features a collection of 26 oil paintings that Takahashi has been working on since 2013 through his own self-teachings.TARGET shared that "Amidst his extremely busy work, he continued to paint on his own through self-study, becoming captivated by the freedom of expression that allowed him to choose motifs and complete the paintings by himself. The main subjects of these paintings are portraits of musicians and actors who have had a significant impact on his life."Through the process of creating these portraits, Takahashi experienced dissatisfaction with one o...

Phil Panza, a multidisciplinary artist from Brooklyn, is known for his surrealistic artwork such as life-size sculptures. Homeware, unconventional chairs, specifically, seem to be at the forefront of Panza's focus as of late, with his recent creations including a moss-covered furniture line and a massive hat chair – watch Panza as he builds an original and colossal Kansas City hat chair from start to finish. Panza starts with pen and paper, taking to it to craft a plan for the size-able yet fully functional structure. The hat chair shown on Panza's Instagram is a New York Yankees one, though this time around, Panza goes with a Kansas City Royals hat. He then cuts, shapes and labels each piece of wood, to then begin drilling them together to create the inner shape of the hat. View thi...

Back in 2018, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibited a massive show dedicated to David Hockney's many portrait paintings of his friends, family and acquaintances. Created in just a three day span in his Los Angeles studio, the acclaimed British artist sought to say thank you, and perhaps a final goodbye, to each of the people he has developed a relationship with over the past 50 years. At age 86, Hockney is still filled childlike curiosity and recently sat down with one of pop music's biggest superstars — Harry Styles. Dressed in a shaggy yellow cardigan with vibrant red stripes, the British singer and actor is seen donning a pearl necklace and gently smiles as the two phenoms chat throughout the session. “David Hockney has been reinventing the way we look at the world for decades,...

KAWS:HOLIDAY continues on a world tour, this time making Indonesia its home. AllRightsReserves presents the famous KAWS "Accomplice" character at the Prambanan temples, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The exhibit marks the 10th rendition of the KAWS:HOLIDAY.The worldwide exhibit tour first launched in 2018 and initially began in Seoul before making its way to Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bristol, Singapore, Changbai Mountain, Melbourne and even in the stratosphere. The world-renowned contemporary artist continues to partner with its long-time collaborator ARR to bring the monumental sculpture to Indonesia's largest Hind temple complex. The Prambanan was made an UNESCO World Heritage in 1991 and are adorned with some of the most stone relief sculptures in the world. A temple dedicated to Hindu d...

SFMOMA lifted the veil on a new group exhibition that celebrates the legacy of lowrider car culture. Entitled Sitting on Chrome, the show will present works by artists Mario Ayala, Guadalupe Rosales and Rafa Esparza, along the institution's second floor galleries, as well as a collaborative mural specially created for the exhibition. Rather than divide each room to one specific artist, the exhibition is laid out in a way to reflect the intersectional ideas and experiences between each artist. Wrapped in a series of connotations and histories, the lowrider has been a cultural icon since the second half of the 20th century, particularly in Latino communities in California, Texas and the Southwest and popularized in music videos and films, from Cypress Hill to Boyz n the Hood. View this post ...

TOILETPAPER magazine is known for its bold, vibrant and surreal photographic juxtapositions that throw the senses for a spin. Founded in 2010 by acclaimed visual artist Maurizio Cattelan and fellow Italian photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, the cult publication unveiled a new exhibition at Mumbai's Nita Mukesh Ambani Centre entitled RUN AS SLOW AS YOU CAN. Characteristic of the photo publication, each element in the show, be it a wall, lamp or table fixture, is emblazoned with striking visuals that will rip apart any previous associations in place of paradoxical connections between reality and fantasy. When asked what constitutes a TOILETPAPER image, Ferrari previously noted that it would have to send a "shiver down the spine!" Mapped out across four distinct chapters, each section within the...

Artist Patrick Martinez is set to present his most expansive series of works yet as part of an exhibition named "Ghost Land," in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF)."Ghost Land" is set to feature a major public artwork alongside a large-scale sculptural installation. The exhibition is designed to highlight Martinez's "landscape" paintings, which ICA SF describes as "works that evoke the topography of personal, civic, and cultural loss."Through these upcoming works, the artist intends to bring urban histories to life as abstractions of the LA landscape and will do so using familiar materials like distressed stucco, spray paint, window security bars, vinyl signage, ceramic tile and neon -- simultaneously putting on display his diverse practice and range....

Yu Nagaba is well-known for his simple doodle-like sketches that comment on a range of daily observations. Having worked with everyone under the sun, from Artek and Pokémon to UNIQLO and the Musée du Louvre, the Japanese artist typically reserves his creative expression for two dimensional surfaces. But for his latest collaboration with Avant Arte, Nagaba chose to reinterpret the classic bronze nude in his signature playful style.Entitled Toy Car, the limited edition sculpture features a woman melodramatically laying against her back with arms outstretched with Nagaba's minimal touch giving shape to the lifeless form, as an actual toy car lies beside her. As the artist's first figurative sculptural figure, the artwork revisits some of Nagaba's earlier works on paper, along with referencing...